A bio-technology corporation creates a new species--intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which the company grows biopolymers--

The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical"

Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek L

(Peeters 1996)

This collection of essays delivers realistic and logical answers to our probing questions of life with refreshing scientific grounding. Actuality uncovers the e