Author: James B. Blish / Year: 1921- 1975 / Genre:Sci-fi Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants
created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the
floor of the jungle where dangers abound. Perhaps he’ll find some truth down there. – The Thing in the
Attic is one of Blish’s Pantropy tales and was first published in the July, 1954 edition of If, Worlds of
Science Fiction magazine.