Future histories become complicated when there is interstellar travel at sub-light speeds. AI rules human beings on Earth, Luna and Mars. Lunarians, human beings genetically altered to live in Lunar gravity although not on the Lunar surface, have colonized Proserpina, a large, dense asteroid in the Kuiper Belt and from there other such bodies. In colonies on the extra-solar planets, Demeter, Amaterasu, Isis and Hestia, human personalities downloaded into organometallic matrices guide the terraforming of environments now inhabited by personalities downloaded into newly grown organic bodies. In the Alpha Centaurian system, the colonized planet, Demeter, is about to be destroyed by natural processes although Lunarians have colonized the Centaurian asteroids. Proserpinans transmit a message to Centaurian Lunarians who relay some of the information to Amaterasu, enough to persuade organic Anson Guthrie that he should send a download of himself to Sol, via Alpha Centauri, to investigate further. The rest of this novel will feature that download, not the Amaterasuan or any other organic Guthrie.
Complicated and I do not remember every detail from the previous three volumes. We have come a very long way indeed from several earlier future history series and the ultimate single-volume future history, Genesis, is still to come after the Guthrie series.
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