#nemo ramjet

"Even now, it is sickeningly easy for beings to get lost in false grand narratives, living out completely driven lives in pursuit of non-existent codes, ideals, climaxes and golden ages. In blindly thinking that their stories serve absolute ends, such creatures almost always end up harming themselves, if not those around them.

To those like the misguided; look at the story of Man, and come to your senses! It is not the destination, but the trip that matters. What you do today influences tomorrow, not the other way around. Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!"

humanity climbs into the stars, discovering new wonders and creating a galactic utopia... only to be wiped out by an unstoppable and sadistic alien threat.

but then, from the most pathetic scraps of what was left behind - new human species formed, with all the same beauty and wonder and curiosity and hope within them.

...until, again, they were wiped out. and this time they were contorted into even more abhorrent and aberrant forms.

but this time, the murderers of mankind would not go unpunished. a galaxy rending, multi-million year long war would spell the end of the mechanical tyrants.

and then, by a miracle of incalculable magnitude (that is barely even touched on by the book) humanity comes back once again. they somehow regained sentience and civilisation, they did the impossible again.

they even managed to redeem some of the machines. they are human too, after all.

in the end, mankind went extinct.

Genre: Science Fiction

Pages: 111

Publication date: 2006

All Tomorrows follows the future evolution of humans after an intelligent alien race, the Qu, genetically modifies humans and leaves them on other planets across the galaxy. Some of these new human evolutions have better luck than others.