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A TRANSMISSION FROM THE ARCHIVE

The Cthulhu Helix

by Katsufumi Umehara

Earliest known edition
1993
Selected edition
paperback
Pages in this edition
387
English editions
2 ↗
SELECTED EDITION DETAILS

2023 · Kurodahan Press · eng

BETWEEN THE COVERS

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"'DNA contains two types of base pair sequences. Exons are meaningful templates for making proteins. Introns are meaningless, random sequences. Yet introns account for ninety-five percent of human DNA. Why is such a huge proportion of the genome reserved for useless code?'

What if all that genetic information wasn't really useless? What if it was put there by someone, something, in the impossibly distant past, for a purpose? And what if humanity's interest in understanding and engineering human DNA unlocks something that should have remained hidden?

Award-winning science fiction author Umehara Katsufumi drags you screaming into a darker future as the monsters of our own genetic code come to life, revealing all too clearly humanity's fatal misunderstanding of its place in the universe... and its very reason for existence, weaving the Cthulhu Mythos, genetic engineering, and the battle against extinction into a masterpiece of horror.

The first part of this book was originally published in Shibano Takumi's famous Uchujin fanzine, promptly winning the 9th SF Fanzine Award, and the book was nominated for both the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Seiun Award." -- From Kurodahan Press's website

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DIFFERENT WAYS INTO THE SAME WORLD

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The Cthulhu HelixSelected2023paperback387Open Library ↗
The Cthulhu Helix2023ebook378Open Library ↗
THE IDEAS CONNECTING THE DOTS

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