Creation took eight days", the implication being that man was created only on the sixth day and a higher earthly being was created on the eighth. His body is ultimately recovered from the ocean, but the message is not understood. Reception Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction praised "Goldfish Bowl" as one of the "up-to-the-minute masterworks" of The Menace from Earth. References 1942 short stories Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein