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The Gnarly Man
"The Gnarly Man" is a classic science fiction story by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the magazine ''Unknown'' for June, 1939 and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection ''The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction'' (Shasta, 1948).〔Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. ''De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography''. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pages 168-169.〕 It later appeared in the subsequent de Camp collections ''The Best of L. Sprague de Camp'' (Doubleday, 1978), ''Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories'' (Five Star, 2002), and ''Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp'' (NESFA Press, 2005).〔〔
The story has also appeared in the magazines ''Fantastic Story Magazine'' for July, 1953 and ''Jim Baen's Universe'' for April, 2007, and the anthologies ''Human?'' (Lion Books, 1954), ''The Unknown'' (Pyramid Books, 1963), ''The Freak Show'' (Rapp & Whiting, 1970), ''The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 1, 1939'' (DAW Books, 1979), ''Dawn of Time'' (Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1979), ''Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction'' (Bonanza Books, 1983), ''Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction'' (Signet/NEL, 1987), ''Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond'' (Galahad Books, 1988), ''Modern Classics of Fantasy'' (St. Martin's Press, 1997), and ''My Favorite Fantasy Story'' (DAW Books, 2000).〔〔 The story has been translated into Dutch,〔 French,〔〔 German〔 and Italian.〔
== Plot summary ==
Visiting a freak show, scientist Dr. Matilda Sandler takes an interest in the ape-man "Ungo-Bungo," who appears to exhibit genuine atavistic features. After the show she goes backstage and meets the man behind the role to ask if he will agree to be examined for scientific purposes. Ungo-Bungo, who calls himself Clarence Aloysius Gaffney, proves affable but reticent about his past and reluctant to submit to examination. In time, however, he warily consents in return for surgery to correct some old injuries. Eventually it comes out that Gaffney is actually Shining Hawk, a Neanderthal Man over 50,000 years old, whose aging process was frozen early in life when he was struck by lightning. He had survived by his wits on the periphery of human society since the extinction of his own kind, using a succession of false identities and getting by as a blacksmith or in menial professions like his present one. He has been a witness to much of history from the margins, making little personal impact on it—though it is suggested that he may have been the original basis for the tales of the divine lame smith Vulcan (his leg injury is ''very'' old). Unfortunately, Gaffney's caution proves well-founded; not only does Sandler develop an unwelcome crush on him, but the revelation of his secret brings out the worst in some of the scientists to whom it is confided. Discovering the surgeon who is to perform his operation secretly intends to dissect him, he skips out. Later, from an undisclosed location, he sends his apologies and regrets to those who have befriended and aided him.
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