Bound to a Single Sun
- Authors
- Stephen W. Leigh
- Publisher
- Astra Publishing House
- Date
- 2022-10-25
- Size
- 1.92 MB
- Lang
- en
Now in e-only, this new near-future sci-fi novel explores the boundaries of what makes us humanIn the near future, humankind has founded colonies on Mars and the inner planets as well as under the oceans, populating them via by direct genetic manipulation, changing us to suit the environment. The haves are those who are "ecomods" (genetically modified) or surgenmods (surgically modified); the have-nots are the typicsthose who havent undergone modification. The typics are forced to live in walled-off, filthy, and run-down areas, held away from the wealthier surgenmods, while the ecomods have formed communities based around their own archetypesinsular societies all, each with their own particular customs.There's a greater wall, as well. Someone or something has put a sphere of exclusion around the inner solar system, an unseen barrier that allows no living being to pass beyond AU 3.0. For all humankind knows, this...