So, they waged a genocidal war to cull the leftovers of a past age. The author goes out of his way to humanize the Gravitals, noting that this wasn't out of hatred or malice, they just didn't see their cousins as peers or as worth keeping around. As such, they didn't see their cousins in the other Human Subspecies as equals.
The Gravitals saw themselves as the true heirs of humanity.When they encountered humanity, they exterminated the baseline Star Men, and punished the survivors for resistance and replacing the native ecosystems by leaving humanity's survivors as animalistic or otherwise primitive new species. They felt that it was their right to take living creatures of all stripes and reshape them into things the Qu saw as pleasing or as proper. Abnormal Ammo: The Tool Breeders carry organic guns that fire modified teeth instead of bullets.Ĭompare and contrast Last and First Men, to which it is in many ways the Spiritual Successor. The original PDF version can be accessed via the Wayback Machine. Although humans fight valiantly, the Qu easily overpowered humanity as punishment, these aliens decide to genetically modify the survivors, turning most of them into mindless, animalistic creatures before departing.Ĭan be read online here. until the colonies encounter the Qu, technologically advanced aliens on a religious mission to remake the universe. Everything is looking up for the human race. After a brief but violent civil war between the two planets, the genetically engineered survivors begin a new wave of colonization, spreading across the galaxy. The story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform and colonize Mars. Nemo Ramjet), with a heavy focus on speculative evolution. All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man is a 2006 science-fiction book by C.
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