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When researchers accidentally release an alien lifeform, McNulty's Symbiont, into the world, the alien alters thousands of adults who produce Symbiont children, beings who punish violence with instant death but who offer heightened consciousness to those who desire itFrom Publishers WeeklyAuthor, editor and critic Knight ( The Observers ) returns for a third time to the floating 21st-century prototype city Sea Venture, or CV. The alien intelligence discovered by Wallace McNulty in the first volume, a species which invades the minds of humans and animals, and (in the second volume) spread like an infection through CV and the rest of the world, has now reproduced in sufficient numbers to do more than observe its hosts. Disliking violence, the "symbionts" kill anyone who has the intention of harming another. Chaos spreads in the world, and researchers aboard CV are trying to find ways to destroy the parasites before they take complete control. Meanwhile, Knight uses characters from the first two volumes to explore rather bluntly a number interesting social and political issues, from the uselessness of a monetary economy to vegetarianism and animal experimentation. The characters often

Author

A Reasonable World

Publisher

Tor Books

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312850777

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities