Natural History

It is in the far future. The human species has diversified. Alongside the seed-forms of the Unevolved (ordinary humans) live and work the Augmented, people who have been forged, not born. Nonetheless the Augmented are human beneath their vast and complex biotechnological bodies which allow them to live deep in the oceans and out in space. As far as they're concerned, however, the old ties of blood and genes may just be ancient history. When a new solar system is found, containing an Earth-like world, full of abandoned alien cities and devoid of intelligent life, the Augmented see it as their Forge - right to claim this place as a homeworld. After all, the aliens who once lived there have followed the same path beyond the limits of genetics and organics, adapting themselves to new environments, and heading for the frontiers of deep space.

ISBN 0330489437   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780330489430 (What's this?)   Pages 400 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 202 Imprint Pan Books   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 178 Publication date 02 Apr 2004   Width (mm) 111 Library of Congress PR6068   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General

"Thought-provoking.... Fans of the sweeping, politically and psychologically aware space opera of Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod will be intrigued by Robson's setting and the new slant she takes on universal questions."--"Publishers Weekly"

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