Book description
The tetraploids, giant men and women created by genetic experiment,
only wanted to live their lives in peace, but they had to live in the
world of the jealous 'normals' who gathered in screaming mobs with
murder in their hearts. Sena, the heroine of this remarkable science
fiction novel, is a tetraploid giantess whose youth would last more than
a century, who looked with wonder at the toy bridges and houses of
normal men and women who regarded her with fear and revulsion.
Beautiful, defenceless Sena was the first of a new race, but would she
be allowed to live . . . ? James Blish (1921-75) studied microbiology
at Rutgers and then served as a medical laboratory technician in the US
army during the Second World War. Among his best known books are Cities
in Flight, A Case of Conscience, for which he won the Hugo in 1959 for
Best Novel, Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter and The Day After Judgement.
