The World at the End of Time

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Although Wan-To wasn't at all human, he (or one might prefer to refer to him as "it," but "he" was not an inappropriate pronoun) would have put that statement in a very different way. Wan-To would have said he was at least human. He certainly had all the human characteristics that he would have considered worth having—if he had known that such a thing as the human race existed, which he did not. He was strong. He was intelligent. He had an inquiring mind—which meant he had a scientific one—which meant that, technologically, Wan-To was a very slick article indeed.

He had, too, that quintessentially human trait that you never seem to find in things like tarantulas or termites. He had a hell of a great sense of humor. His idea of what was funny was not subtle. Basically, it was the pie-in-the-face or the pull-the-chair-out-from-under-you kind of thing. But that's just as true of a lot of human beings.

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