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Natural History (Paperback)

by Justina Robson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; New edition edition (2 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330489437
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330489430
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 266,988 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It is in the far future. The human species has diversified. Alongside the seed-forms of the Unevolved (ordinary humans) live and work the Augmented, people who have been forged, not born. Nonetheless the Augmented are human beneath their vast and complex biotechnological bodies which allow them to live deep in the oceans and out in space. As far as they're concerned, however, the old ties of blood and genes may just be ancient history.

When a new solar system is found, containing an Earth-like world, full of abandoned alien cities and devoid of intelligent life, the Augmented see it as their Forge-right to claim this place as a homeworld. After all, the aliens who once lived there have followed the same path beyond the limits of genetics and organics, adapting themselves to new environments, and heading for the frontiers of deep space.

Allegedly...



About the Author

Born and brought up in Leeds, where she still lives, Justina Robson started writing in her teens. Her first novel SILVER SCREEN was published by Macmillan to great critical acclaim.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very very good!, 8 Sep 2003
This review is from: Natural History (Hardcover)
I loved this book. It was a bit confusing in the start because it's a very different world you are presented, but after three chapters it starts to be hard to stop reading. Hell, I think I want to become Forged...
Maybe the plot is nor that intricate as other big SF books, but it has one BIG prize: in my opinion this book is a vision of the future of SF, in the technological sense. The autor remainds me Neal Asher in this point, the developments are somehow alike.
The edition (hardback) is also marvelous, the letters are good and the paper feels great. I think it's a book to keep for years and years to come.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Expecting something different, 8 Nov 2009
By Sulkyblue (London, UK) - See all my reviews
I'm sorry to say that I really didn't like this book. I don't think there's anything actually wrong with the book, in fact I suspect it's probably quite good, but I just couldn't get into it. I couldn't keep track of the plot or the characters and just didn't find it particularly engaging. I was expecting something different given the title and cover and never really caught up with what the book was actually about. By 2/3 through I'd pretty much given up and was just reading in a desperate attempt to get to the end. I've heard some glowing reviews of the book, but it just wasn't to my taste.
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