The Human Blend
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In this first novel of a thrilling new series set in our near future, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and body manipulation—and poses profound questions about what it means to be human. Given his name because radical surgery has reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and his partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to steal his artificial hand. But the victim is also carrying an unusual silver thread, which Whispr and Jiminy grab as well. Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Powerful forces have been searching for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread, and when he offers to split the profits with Ingrid, she makes an astonishing discovery. So begins the formidable partnership between the Harvard-educated physician and the street-smart thief—as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.
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2 primary booksTipping Point is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Alan Dean Foster.
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The Human Blend (The Tipping Point Trilogy Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster
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Alan Dean Foster returns to his gritty cyberpunk future. In this future, global warming is a reality with most of the Atlantic seaboard underwater. Cities like Savannah are either flooded, on stilts or behind walls. The human population has split between “melds” and “normals.” “Melds” are people who have modified their bodies in whatever way they want with cyber or biological augmentations; some people have elongated their lower limbs so that they can jump like, and look like, crickets; others have built up their strength to Herculian dimensions.
In Savannah, Jiminy Cricket and Wispr murder a tourist by overriding his cyber-augmentations and steal his cyber hand and a length of data storage “thread.”
And, then, their troubles begin.
At the same time, Dr. Ingrid Seastrom finds an odd implant among a malfunctioning meld of a young girl. The implant disappears when it is scanned but not immediately.
The story is about Whispr and Ingrid's search for the riddle of the thread. Their journey takes us through a different world. The story moves along and makes for an enjoyable read. Alan Dean Foster's characters are usually nice allowing us to empathize with them. These two are no exception, although there is a criminal edge to Whispr that is disquieting. We will have to see how that turns out.
