One of the genetically engineered intelligent seals that exist in this future history accompanies Fenn EVA in a specially designed legless spacesuit.
Several comparisons and contrasts come up:
the seal-like Adapted Men who reseed the desert Earth in James Blish's The Seedling Stars;
genetically engineered amphibious human beings in James Blish's and Norman L. Knight's A Torrent Of Faces;
other metamorphs.
Potentially a long list but not one that I am about to pursue right now.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And the very idea of "uplifting" animals like seals to human levels of intelligence was one of the more difficult concepts in Anderson's HARVEST books for me to grapple with! Again, that is not a criticism, but a commendation. It was praiseworthy of Anderson to be so willing to examine even what seemed very outlandish ideas in his final years.
Ad astra! Sean
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