Alori science is based in biology, not in physics. The Alori have adapted organisms in ways that are impossible for the human beings of the Stellar Union. A crew of Nomads and one Coordinator decline the invitation to spend the rest of their lives on an Alori planet. This reminds us of an incident in Methuselah's Children, which is really the culminating novel of Robert Heinlein's Future History as, arguably, The Peregrine is of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History.
In Methuselah's Children, the Howard Families try to settle on two different inhabited extra-solar planets. On the second planet, the natives somehow alter a human baby between its conception and its birth. This decides a majority of the Howards that they should return to Earth. I do not remember the details and might reread the relevant chapters of Methuselah's Children.
Although Heinlein's Future History and Anderson's Psychotechnic and Technic Histories are three distinct future history series, they nevertheless form a conceptual triad.
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Kaor, Paul!
I also thought of the alien Monwaingi that we see in AFTER DOOMSDAY, a race which specialized in the genetic manipulation of life. And it came to end with the Monwaingi taking a cold blooded attitude towards toward all other forms of life.
Ad astra! Sean
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