Simply Human
 WOULD
YOU TRUST THIS KID
WITH THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE?
Assaulted
by random chemicals, solar radiation, and genetic manipulation, the
human gene pool was falling apart. The solution: simplify it, making it
fourfold redundant and self-correcting. In a thousand years, when the
planet was clean again, change it back. In the meantime, the
“Simplified” humans would keep rudimentary civilization going.
But
after two thousand years, the automated monitors still register
intolerable mutation rates. Achibol the Sorcerer, dilapidated cyborg
troubleshooter, is repairing them one by one, but someone—or
something—doesn’t want him to succeed.
The
urchin Benadek, Achibol’s apprentice, only wants good food and a warm
place to sleep. But nothing is ever what it seems, including Benadek.
And nothing human is ever . . . simple.
Praise
for the Science Fiction of L. Warren Douglas:
“. . .
highly entertaining and full of action . . . a divertingly strange
future, one that should appeal equally to fans of sf and fantasy
adventure.” —Locus
“. . .
well-crafted, exciting, [more than] space opera . . . intelligent,
fast-moving.” —Booklist
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Cover art by John Monteleone
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, August 2000
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: 0-671-57882-0
Copyright © 2000 by L. Warren Douglas
All rights reserved, including the right to
reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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