Natural History

British Science Fiction Association Best Novel nominee 2003, John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee, 2004, Philip K Dick Award Best Novel nominee 2005. In the far future, humanity has engineered itself into new forms capable of spaceflight, the terraforming of planets, and the exploration of the deepest oceans. Evolution has reached a new zenith, and it seems there is no environment we cannot conquer. But when intersteller voyager meets a piece of alien technology in a head on collision, the results go to show that the synthesis of the human race and its own technology is not the first or the most advanced of its kind in the galaxy.