There was an illustrated book floating around in pdf form a few years ago, but now I can’t find it. It describes the history of the next several billion years of history in our galaxy. In an act of revenge, the most powerful branch of Homo sapiens decides to bioengineer all other intelligent species, including all descendants of humans. The bulk of the book is a taxonomy of the results. Some lineages lose the capacity for self-awareness. Others are reduced to flat, square laminae without hands or locomotion, but retain their self-awareness, the better to appreciate their condition.
I’m guessing you mean Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon. More a horror book than a rational extrapolation of future human evolution.
For a great early attempt at this kind of thing, take a look at Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men, published in 1930.
There was an illustrated book floating around in pdf form a few years ago, but now I can’t find it. It describes the history of the next several billion years of history in our galaxy. In an act of revenge, the most powerful branch of Homo sapiens decides to bioengineer all other intelligent species, including all descendants of humans. The bulk of the book is a taxonomy of the results. Some lineages lose the capacity for self-awareness. Others are reduced to flat, square laminae without hands or locomotion, but retain their self-awareness, the better to appreciate their condition.
I’m guessing you mean Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon. More a horror book than a rational extrapolation of future human evolution. For a great early attempt at this kind of thing, take a look at Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men, published in 1930.
Man After Man is similar. However, there is another book which he or she may be referring to.
Yeah, I took a look at After Man and Man After Man, and neither is the book I was thinking of, although they are similar.
I think this is it.
http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ramjet/01_en.htm
Yeah, that’s it! Here’s a pdf.
Stephen Baxter’s Evolution has (rot13) aba-fncvrag qrfpraqragf bs uhznaf jub unir orra qbzrfgvpngrq ol vagryyvtrag qrfpraqragf bs engf (VVEP).