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Surface Tension (short story)
"Surface Tension" is a science fiction short story by James Blish originally published in 1952. As collected in Blish's ''The Seedling Stars'', it was revised to incorporate material from his earlier story "Sunken Universe", published in ''Super Science Stories'' in 1942.〔(Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections )〕
==Plot summary==
A human colonization ship crash-lands on a distant planet which is earth-like but whose only landmass is completely covered in shallow puddles of water and mostly microscope life forms. Normal humans could not survive on this planet, so the crew must genetically engineer their descendants into something that can survive. (Blish coined the term pantropy to refer to this concept.) They decide to create a race of microscopic aquatic humanoids to complete their mission and colonize the planet.
The majority of the story concerns one groups of these genetically engineered colonists and their intelligence, curiosity, and evolving technology. In particular, the tiny aquatic humanoids develop a "space ship", or rather "air ship", which enables them to pierce the previously impenetrable surface tension of the water and travel through what is, to them, hostile space—open air—to other worlds in other puddles of water.
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