Review: Okay Sci-Fi
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
Based on Amazon reviewers’ high rankings, I bought the 4-novella set a while back.  I first read Sub-Human (1 star) and Post-Human (2 stars).  And now, after a couple months lull, I’ve read Trans-Human (2.5 stars) and Human-Plus (3.5 stars).Of the four stories, Human-Plus had the most interesting plot as the main character starts out as the smartest, most successful man on the planet, but then sees his whole life begin to spiral completely out of his control.  Human-Plus is an interesting yarn.Unlike Human-Plus (which can be read without having read any of the other three stories), Trans-Human is very much a sequel to Post-Human. The basic plot of Trans-Human is that the human race is trapped between two competing life forms – both of which appear vastly more powerful than the humans.  But the way the author resolved that problem made the whole story anti-climatic (in the same way that the outcome of a fight between a swordsman and a gunfighter would be anti-climatic as the gunfighter is sure to win).One other reason for my higher ranking of these last two stories was that the excess cruelty depicted in the first two stories (specifically, the torture and killing of humans) was more disturbing to me than were the last two stories (where the torture and killing seemed less personal as it was mostly done to robotic humans and simulated humans).