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Comment author: Nisan 06 November 2011 05:52:28PM 1 point [-]

There was an illustrated book floating around in pdf form a few years ago, but now I can't find it. It describes the history of the next several billion years of history in our galaxy. In an act of revenge, the most powerful branch of Homo sapiens decides to bioengineer all other intelligent species, including all descendants of humans. The bulk of the book is a taxonomy of the results. Some lineages lose the capacity for self-awareness. Others are reduced to flat, square laminae without hands or locomotion, but retain their self-awareness, the better to appreciate their condition.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 06 November 2011 07:10:15PM 3 points [-]

Stephen Baxter's Evolution has (rot13) aba-fncvrag qrfpraqragf bs uhznaf jub unir orra qbzrfgvpngrq ol vagryyvtrag qrfpraqragf bs engf (VVEP).

Comment author: summerstay 07 November 2011 11:57:18AM *  2 points [-]

I'm guessing you mean Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon. More a horror book than a rational extrapolation of future human evolution. For a great early attempt at this kind of thing, take a look at Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, published in 1930.

Comment author: J_Taylor 08 November 2011 05:46:57PM *  1 point [-]

Man After Man is similar. However, there is another book which he or she may be referring to.

Comment author: Nisan 08 November 2011 06:42:44PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I took a look at After Man and Man After Man, and neither is the book I was thinking of, although they are similar.

Comment author: J_Taylor 03 August 2013 05:55:25PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: Nisan 03 August 2013 08:01:31PM 4 points [-]

Yeah, that's it! Here's a pdf.