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Natural History

Natural History

A daring and original new novel from one of sci fi’s most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all.... IMAGINE A WORLD... Half-human, half-machine, Voyager Isol was as beautiful as a coiled scorpion–and just as dangerous. Her claim that she’d found a distant but habitable earthlike planet was welcome news to the rest of the Forged. But it could mean the end of what was left of the humanity who’d created and once enslaved them. IMAGINE A FATE... It was on behalf of the “unevolved” humans that Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archaeologist and historian of Earth’s lost worlds, was chosen by the Gaiasol military authority to uncover the truth about this second “earth.” And her voyage, traveling inside the body of Isol, will take her to the center of a storm exploding across a spectrum of space and time, dimension and consciousness. IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE... On an abandoned planet, in a wrinkle of time, Isol and Zephyr will find a gift and a curse: a power so vast that once unlocked, it will change the universe forever. With civil war looming, Zephyr’s perilous journey will lead her to a past where one civilization mysteriously vanished...and another may soon follow. From the Trade Paperback edition.


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“On the other hand…why was there always an “other hand?””

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 31 “Swallowing Hard on It” (p. 314)

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““So, you’re saying you have no idea what this stuff is.” At last, something that sounded plausible.”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 2 “Isol and Corvax” (p. 29)

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“I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time.”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 10 “Idlewild” (p. 128)

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“The gun is a consequence of our minds. If we were in love with peace, and had no will to destroy each other, there would be no gun.”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 28 “Tom Speaks” (p. 291)

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“What’s the point of history, if it has nothing to say to the present?”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 5 “Ancient History” (p. 56)

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“Delirium, dream, death—Three-D. What was the fourth?”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 3 “Uluru” (p. 45)

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“Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up the ass.”

Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 21 “The Big Debate” (p. 219)

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