The Human Blend

The Human Blend (The Tipping Point Trilogy Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster returns to his gritty cyberpunk future. In this future, global warming is a reality with most of the Atlantic seaboard underwater. Cities like Savannah are either flooded, on stilts or behind walls. The human population has split between “melds” and “normals.” “Melds” are people who have modified their bodies in whatever way they want with cyber or biological augmentations; some people have elongated their lower limbs so that they can jump like, and look like, crickets; others have built up their strength to Herculian dimensions.

In Savannah, Jiminy Cricket and Wispr murder a tourist by overriding his cyber-augmentations and steal his cyber hand and a length of data storage “thread.”

And, then, their troubles begin.

At the same time, Dr. Ingrid Seastrom finds an odd implant among a malfunctioning meld of a young girl. The implant disappears when it is scanned but not immediately.

The story is about Whispr and Ingrid's search for the riddle of the thread. Their journey takes us through a different world. The story moves along and makes for an enjoyable read. Alan Dean Foster's characters are usually nice allowing us to empathize with them. These two are no exception, although there is a criminal edge to Whispr that is disquieting. We will have to see how that turns out.