Summary
James Blish: Star Spores
“Star Spores” is perhaps Blish's most significant work. It is a collection of stories in which the author speculatively elaborates the motif of biological engineering. Namely, the successful colonization of space presupposes, according to Blish, the genetic adaptation of people to the conditions they find on certain habitable planets. The human variants thus created would retain the basic characteristics of the human race. Thanks to their interstellar distribution and mutual solidarity, Blish thinks, they would have an initial advantage over any possible non-human aggressor from space.
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