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Inspiration: Man after man

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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Inspiration: Man after man
Io9 remined me of the work of Dougal Dixon, in particular "Man after Man": http://io9.com/5695323/the-horrors-of-evolution-10-freakiest-animals-of-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_After_Man:_An_Anthropology_of_the_Future Lots of ideas here for exsurgents, exhumans and just plain freaky morphs. I especially liked the Vacuumorphs. Maybe this was an early morph design, superseded by the ones in the main book and largely forgotten. One day the PCs discover that someone has moved in on the outside of their habitat... there is actually a whole colony of vacuumorphs living there. The main problem I see with the book is the extreme specialization of many of these species: humans have been successful just because we are so general with our intelligence. It hence seems somewhat unlikely that these humans would specialize (without genetic engineering as in the early chapters) unless they either lost their intelligence or there was a whole ecosystem of post-human species. However, from an EP standpoint these species are all great, and make sense as morphs, weird art projects or exsurgent horrors.
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Colin Chapman Colin Chapman's picture
Re: Inspiration: Man after man
All of Dixon's books are great reads, chock full of ideas. I also heartily recommend After Man - A Zoology of the Future, and The New Dinosaurs too. Colin

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fafromnice fafromnice's picture
Re: Inspiration: Man after man
it have a post somewhere on the reproduction in Eclipse Phase I read a little bit on the wiki and I think it have some interesting point ... in the possibilité of titan outbreak who kill the majority of the transhumanity and We (they) lost all the technologie of resleeving, how the transhumanity will survive ? how a fury will evolve ? etc. etc.

What do you mean a butterfly cause this ? How a butterfly can cause an enviromental system overload on the other side of a 10 000 egos habitat ?