Poul Anderson

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The Anson Guthrie novels

The Anson Guthrie or Fireball novels chronicle the expansion of the human race into the Solar System and the nearby stars, as well as the development of the cybercosm, a global network of seemingly-benevolent, intelligent machines. The Synesis, the combination of the cybercosm and human society, stands in stark contrast to the society of the genetically-altered Lunarians. Meanwhile, human civilization on the interstellar colony worlds of Demeter (at Alpha Centauri) and Amaterasu (Beta Hydri) takes a very different turn, developing global, organic intelligences called Life Mothers evolved from human consciousnesses "downloaded" into the terraformed planetary flora. One character, Anson Guthrie, founder of Fireball Enterprises, the company that led the early exploration of the Solar System, plays several key roles throughout the centuries of these stories by virtue of having been one of the first humans to have his consciousness "downloaded" into a computer.

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