Humans are more or less bound to earth while their machine hybrid descendants live across the solar system and explore the wider universe, also because humans cannot be trusted to not run things into the ground again. A earth similar planet Meru is discovered. Are the alloys really better than humans at keeping themselves in check?
Tag: spaceopera
Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez
The follow-up to Delta-V (which I read in June 2021), a tech thriller around space mining that is somewhat predictable more because of its genre than the story itself.