num_pages: 217
description: In the beginning was Egan Drake, wanderer and unhappy visionary. The neurotic child of a wealthy family, he died early, leaving behind only a powerful dream—Egan proposed to spread mankind among the stars.Then there was Megan Drake. Talented and beautiful, she took her brother’s vision—and her uncle’s money—and made of it something real. At the Raven Foundation’s mysterious New Mexico headquarters, she gathered experts in myriad fields. But five were of paramount importance—the department heads in astronautics, biology, computer science, defense, and fusion propulsion—for they would contribute their genes to the electromechanical wombs that each ship was to carry into space.The project was as simple in design as it was grandiose in its aim: perhaps a thousand tiny ships would crawl to the stars; each that landed successfully on an Earth-type planet would produce several dozen well-educated colonists; each colonist would be a product of the genes derived from Megan and the department heads and edited to suit local conditions of gravity, temperature, air pressure, etc. Every ship could manufacture cyborgs for repairs and self-protection.But much of the technology was new and untried; no one could reliably fortell what might really occur at a millennia-long journey’s end if, say, a cyborg fell in love or aliens were met or…
language: English
title: Manseed
titlecomplete: Manseed
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 144
publisher: Random House Inc