6/10/2023 0 Comments Cyteen cherryhThere are drawbacks: not enough action, spindly characters, sheer density and length (a whopping 680 pages). Meanwhile, Ari's people start to grow a clone of Ari, which, thanks to Ari's own brilliant research, will grow into an exact duplicate of the dead Ari-as a prelude to an even more ferocious struggle. Whodunit? Well, Special and psychogenesis ("mind-cloning") expert Jordan Warrick confesses-even though he's not guilty-as part of a convoluted power-play. Ari, a Special, appears to be at the height of her power-yet various almost-as-powerful factions oppose her plans to launch another wave of human expansion across the galaxy. Hostile alien planet Cyteen is slowly being terraformed its labs and industries are at the heart of Ariane Emory's political-military-industrial empire. At the top of the human ant-heap are the Specials, supergeniuses subject only to self-imposed restraints. Genetically-engineered humans-programmed by computer for any desired orientation, loyalty, and function-are commonplace. In 2300 A.D., Earth's farflung colonies and space habitats have won their independence after a long struggle. Cherryh's backdrop is a complex and thoughtful one. Not a sequel to, but a story taking place in the same far-future universe as, Cherryh's well-known Downbelow Station, churning with political intrigue and heavyweight powerbroking, thick with knotty conspiracies and plots.
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