Comments on: Human Selection http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/12/human-selection/ The Future, Science, and Science Fiction: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brenda http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/12/human-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 brenda Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:57:13 +0000 http://www.brenda-cooper.com/?p=116#comment-1286 Hi Sandra, Thanks for the comment. I think the way you're branching the river of us makes sense, and that those will be two common choices in our future. A third will be a hybrid human - part machine, part bioengineered. Anyway, to answer your question, in THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, the classic humans vastly outnumber the genetically modified humans on a colony planet. Hi Sandra,

Thanks for the comment. I think the way you’re branching the river of us makes sense, and that those will be two common choices in our future. A third will be a hybrid human – part machine, part bioengineered.
Anyway, to answer your question, in THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, the classic humans vastly outnumber the genetically modified humans on a colony planet.

]]> By: Sandra Barret http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/12/human-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 Sandra Barret Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:33:58 +0000 http://www.brenda-cooper.com/?p=116#comment-1280 Fascinating stuff. I tried to touch on the two variants of posthuman in my own writing, where I have one branch taking the genetic alteration approach, and the other taking cyber enhancements. A major theme, as in yours, is the prejudice between the two groups. I'll be adding your books to my ToBeRead pile! On thing if you can elaborate - how do the classic humans compete w/ altered humans? Most of the posthuman sites I've read bring up how these modified folks will leave the rest of us in the dust! ;-) Fascinating stuff. I tried to touch on the two variants of posthuman in my own writing, where I have one branch taking the genetic alteration approach, and the other taking cyber enhancements. A major theme, as in yours, is the prejudice between the two groups. I’ll be adding your books to my ToBeRead pile!

On thing if you can elaborate – how do the classic humans compete w/ altered humans? Most of the posthuman sites I’ve read bring up how these modified folks will leave the rest of us in the dust! ;-)

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