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Humans are modified for alien environments as it's easier & cheaper than terraforming.1/Seeding Program concerns Pantropy's inception. The program's deteriorated into hideous genetic experimenting & has been outlawed. It describes an adapted, Sweeney, with a liquid ammonia & sulphur bond metabolism with IceIV bones, inserted into a Ganymede colony by the Terran paramilitary Port Authority to capture a scientist to end plans to seed modified humans on distant worlds. However, the government really wants to derail pantropy because it threatens terraforming profits. Sweeney is surprised to find an established community on Ganymede, realizes he's expendable & that he's been fed false hopes about being changed into a normal human. He switches sides. With his help the Ganymedans manage to launch seed ships to destinations beyond governmental reach.2/The Thing in the Attic tells of a small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans living in jungle trees. Having openly voiced the heresy that godly giants don't literally exist as claimed in the book of laws, they're banished. In their exile on the ground they have to adapt, fight monsters & finally happe

Who reads The Seedling Stars?

Author

Blish, James

Publisher

Arrow Books

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099067108

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14