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Organic Future #3
Woodsman
Third volume of the "Organic Future" series. Freddy the Pig is now human, but the Luddite "Engineers" are determined to destroy him and all his genetically modified friends. If they can survive the concentration camps, there's a starship waiting. A prophetic foreshadowing of the current anti-genetic-engineering fervor.
- GenresScience Fiction
212 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
About the author
Thomas A. Easton
169 books6 followersThomas A. Easton is a teacher and well-known science fiction critic and author. He retired as a professor from Thomas College of Maine in 2014 and now teaches part-time at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA.
Easton holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Colby College and a doctorate in theoretical biology from the University of Chicago.
He wrote the book review column in SF magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1979 - 2009. He appears frequently at Boston-area science fiction conventions.
Easton holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Colby College and a doctorate in theoretical biology from the University of Chicago.
He wrote the book review column in SF magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1979 - 2009. He appears frequently at Boston-area science fiction conventions.
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September 12, 2011
Woodsman (1992) by Thomas Easton.
In the first chapter of Woodsman, Eastman kills off three of the main characters from his previous novel Greenhouse (1991), possibly to prevent their stories from dominating the rest of this novel. This story picks up in 2084, and moves ahead slightly to 2095, 150 years after the first atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan.
Rather than rewrite the first two novels in his "Organic Future" series, Eastman finally delivers on what were merely threats. Things change drastically, and not necessarily for the better. Eastman introduces the next step in the humanoid/flower hybrids, as well as changing the playground for his ongoing narrative.
Definitely worth the investment of the first two novels, since here is where the players - and the rules - change.
Sept. 2007
In the first chapter of Woodsman, Eastman kills off three of the main characters from his previous novel Greenhouse (1991), possibly to prevent their stories from dominating the rest of this novel. This story picks up in 2084, and moves ahead slightly to 2095, 150 years after the first atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan.
Rather than rewrite the first two novels in his "Organic Future" series, Eastman finally delivers on what were merely threats. Things change drastically, and not necessarily for the better. Eastman introduces the next step in the humanoid/flower hybrids, as well as changing the playground for his ongoing narrative.
Definitely worth the investment of the first two novels, since here is where the players - and the rules - change.
Sept. 2007
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