Sideshow

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1. balance_itNov 2017
   Sideshow by Sheri Stewart Tepper.

   This book changed the way I think about what is right and what is wrong.

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2. moominOct 2017
   In Sheri S Tepper's wonderful novel Sideshow (the final part of the Arbai trilogy) a planet of (increasingly rare and nativist) baseline humans is set up to answer the question: "What is the destiny of man?"

   The answer comes back: "To become something that is not man."

   Extinction itself isn't really anything to be scared of. The real question is whether we're replaced by something better, and maybe what those superior beings would think of us after we're gone.

   (That last question is answered in one of Stephen Baxter's books with: "an extremely successful animal that enlarged its ecological niche")

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