<page_title> Uplift (science fiction) </page_title> <section_title> Timeline of works </section_title> <table> <cell> "Johnny Black" stories <col_header> Series </col_header> </cell> <cell> L. Sprague de Camp <col_header> Creator </col_header> </cell> <cell> Other early literary examples can be found in L. Sprague de Camp's "Johnny Black" stories (beginning with "The Command") about a black bear raised to human-level intelligence, published in Astounding Science-Fiction from 1938-1940. <col_header> Notes </col_header> </cell> </table>
L. Sprague de Camp's "Johnny Black" stories (beginning with "The Command") about a black bear raised to human-level intelligence, published in Astounding Science-Fiction from 1938-1940.