One Small Step Ken Scholes “I wrote ‘One Small Step’ after reading Desmond Morris’s The Naked Ape just ahead oflast year’s Talebones Live group reading at Norwescon. One of those Fabulous McKenna Girlshappened to be attending heard the story and loved it. Flash forward to Worldcon and I’mattending Aeon’s spectacular party. I tell Marti I’m overdue to send something to them andshe says nodding her head encouragingly ‘Are you sending the chimp story’ I sent it the next morning. They bought it that afternoon making it the fastest sale I’veever made Us too –Eds. Merriam-Webster defines a fable as ‘a narration intended to enforce a useful truthespecially: one in which animals speak and act like human beings.’ I hope you all enjoy mylittle fable. Here’s hoping we all sort out that useful truth.” This story is dedicated to Charles Stores my college science professor. You were rightCharles. W e realized things had gone too far on the moon when Anderson’s chimps killed him shavedthemselves and democratically elected one of their own to put on his lab-coat and demand ameeting with the rest of us. Of course Anderson started this whole goddamn mess and hedeserved what he got. Even Gable and Tennyson agreed on that point and those two never agreedon anything. I met Dr. Roger Anderson after a paper he delivered at the World Economic DevelopmentConference in Thailand. Now everyone knows it as Tomorrow’s Labor Force: Inter-speciesCollaboration