NATURAL HISTORY. New York: Bantam Books, [2005]. Octavo, wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition. The first book of the Natural History sequence, comprising NATURAL HISTORY (2003) and LIVING NEXT-DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE (2005). A tale of the future in which "humanity -- as a consequence of multifarious demands upon living organisms if space is to be exploited -- has bifurcated into the Unevolved who dominate Earth and claim in orthodox future history fashion to rule all outlying regions, and the post-human Forged, who through genetic engineering and other technologies have ramified into myriad sentient forms including hive minds, some even being translated into semiautonomous Mecha; Space Opera super science soon complicates the picture, as a sentient interstellar probe suddenly acquires the ability to cross the galaxy in an instant." - John Clute, SFE (online). The author's third SF novel. Runner up for the 2006 Philip K. Dick Award. Runner-up for the 2004 Campbell Memorial award. Published by Bantam as a trade paperback. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-923. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #73. A fine copy. (#139910).
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