The Seeds of Power

**\*\*New cover edition\*\*** **Would you become a cyborg just to survive? I did, and it ended the world.** In 2040, three factions went to war over the creation of artilects—sentient androids indistinguishable from human beings. Five years later, Ailith wakes to find the Artilect War over and th

**Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes** Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life wer

Clio Finn is a Dive pilot on a troubled Earth in 2019. Public paranoia about the AIDS virus and its successors has led to the imprisonment of the "subversives" of the society (namely, drug users and gays) in forced labor quarantine camps known as quarries. Meanwhile, Earth itself is dying from a pro

### Amazon.com Review Clio Finn is a Dive pilot, one of the few humans able to guide a spacecraft back through time. In a 2019 that has seen Earth lose most of its plant life, Dives are the last hope humanity has for finding new seeds to replenish the planet. But Clio is strung out on drugs, one st

### Amazon.com Review Clio Finn is a Dive pilot, one of the few humans able to guide a spacecraft back through time. In a 2019 that has seen Earth lose most of its plant life, Dives are the last hope humanity has for finding new seeds to replenish the planet. But Clio is strung out on drugs, one st

In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics _The Day of the Triffids_ and _The Midwich Cuckoos_ , conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what might happen _if_ . . .' There's the story of the meteor, which holds much more than meets the eye