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coalescentThis is the blurb on the back of the book I got today:
Yes, it's Stephen Baxter doing Last And First Men. I swear, sometimes I wonder why people ever read anything other than SF... :-)
And I've got it roughly two months before publication. Woohoo!
Today was a good day for Stuff; I also got my mispriced Farscape 3.5 boxed set in the post.
The story began when dinosaurs dominated the earth. And, down through the countless millennia of the day-to-day dramas of survival of the fittest, they have survived. The primates. They have been carried by the infinitely slow, stately dance of the continents, lived through the swift advance and retreat of the great ice packs. 65 million years ago, they survived an apocalyptic asteroid strike. They fumbled their way out of the forests, they became human, they covered the Earth, they fell but they have survived. And evolved. Adapted to life on a changing, dying world. This is their story. Evolution follows the ebb and flow of one stream in the great river of DNA. It turns the story of Darwinian evolution into a constant drama, a daily life and death struggle. It is a story that transcends species, mankind and, in the end, the Earth itself. Stephen Baxter's epic new novel, an extraordinary feat of the imagination, will be backed by national press advertising and national review and feature coverage. Published by Gollancz, November 2002. |
Yes, it's Stephen Baxter doing Last And First Men. I swear, sometimes I wonder why people ever read anything other than SF... :-)
And I've got it roughly two months before publication. Woohoo!
Today was a good day for Stuff; I also got my mispriced Farscape 3.5 boxed set in the post.
