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[roseandsigil]

I am looking for a book. It is a collection of short stories, science fiction, all by the same author, and all in the same universe. It tells the story of the history of humanity, from possibly the near future, through thousands of years and various galaxy spanning societies to the end of the human race as (I read the last story in the book) five

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[gregh1983]

Whee! Nearly simultaneous comments giving the same information :-)

If you do find out what this book is, could you let me know? It sounds quite interesting.

[roseandsigil]

It looks like it is Birthright: The Book of Man.

[seekingferret]

It sounds vaguely like Mike Resnick's Birthright Universe. It doesn't exactly sound like Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Man universe. It also sounds really familiar, as if I've definitely skimmed this book also.

[roseandsigil]

I am pretty sure that it is the collection Birthright: The Book of Man. Thanks, Ferret.

[seekingferret]

No problem. Pretty much everything Resnick wrote fits within this universe, and I've only read one or two of the books. But I remembered that his time periods were called Republic, Empire, etc...

[_wirehead_]

no, but i just remembered... what books of mine do you have? i think The Prophet and Light?

[roseandsigil]

I have The Prophet, Light and Archangel. If you want them back, I can send them to you...otherwise, they are definitely getting read. I am sortakinda reading Light, though that seems to have stopped due to raytracer for a bit.

[aleffert]

I think I may have mentioned this, but however you feel about Light, I'd definitely recommend Viriconium by him. It's very Wolfean.

[_wirehead_]

Viriconium is completely awesome.

(perhaps this means i should read Wolfe...)