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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

#PennedPossibilities 799.1 — What species is your MC?

Heh. In "Ghost Engine", the MCs are all Shinies—an engineered hominin species (who are genetically about as closely related to us as clownfish or platypuses).

In "Starter Pack" the MCs think of themselves as human, but our species of hominid is long-extinct. (They're *functionally* human: I haven't enumerated their differences.) There are other hominin species, mostly engineered for compatability with different biospheres.

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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@cstross
Pretty cool.

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Resuna
@resuna@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@cstross

Like in Harry Harrison's "One Step from Earth" where the last story is about a researcher discovering that "humans" didn't always have six fingers...

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