All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C. M. Kösemen

Author:C. M. Kösemen [Kösemen, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Alien Contact, Genetic Engineering, Dystopian, Fantasy, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781789652581
Google: T3lfEQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2025-08-21T13:39:10+00:00

A young male Killer tours one of the myriad ruined fortresses in his country, testimony to their species’ bloody, protean history. The planet of the Killer Folk is an archaeologists’ paradise. It has more buried dark ages, ruined cultures and fallen kingdoms than any other world.

Tool Breeders (Descendants of the Swimmers)

They used to be simple creatures, descendants of a battered people that had taken to the sea. Their remote sapiens ancestors would have given such beings no chance of a sentient comeback, for they thought that technological advances were impossible in the fluid medium of the oceans. But the Swimmers disproved such predictions by founding one of the most advanced and most outrageously alien cultures of the entire human lineage.

Fire, the cornerstone of industrial engineering, was almost impossible to sustain and use underwater. But the Breeders simply choose another path when complex toolmaking proved impracticable. They began to breed their tools and machines for them.

It had started long before the species was even intelligent. In the endless variety of life in the seas, the Swimmers always adopted and controlled the organisms that were useful in some way. Once domesticated, these creatures were willfully or unintentionally modified through artificial selection and conditioning. The process was slow, but once underway, its effects were formidable.

A modern city of the Breeders was a sight to behold. Huge, heart-like creatures pumped out nutritious fluids to a network of self-repairing, living conduits. This was their equivalent of a power grid, and it reached every single one of the Breeders’ huge, exoskeletal dwellings: “powering” bioluminescent lights, flickering cephalopod skin televisions, medicinal sea-squirts and countless other devices that had been bred from living creatures. The advances in biology had risen exponentially, until genetic engineering was completely mastered. Modern Breeders did not even need to use animals; a simple manipulation of cultured tissues and stem-cells could give solutions to any problem at hand.

The mastery of genetics had conquered many obstacles. The yawning ocean depths, as well as the Planet's few tiny landmasses were now firmly within the Breeders’ grasp. However, they were not content with mere planetary dreams. New forms and bizarre creatures were still being developed, in daring attempts to conquer the one realm that was most hostile to life.

Sealed in their living ships, the Breeders wished to return to the stars.

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