Martins Press Length: 128 Pages Weight: 2.25 lbs. During writing, the book had changed considerably from its initial concept, which Dixon instead repurposed for his later book Greenworld (2010). Read Full Overview Edition Details Professional Reviews Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0312035608 ISBN13: 9780312035600 Release Date: January 1990 Publisher: St. Dixon himself is not fond of the book, having referred to it as a "disaster of a project". Reviews of Man After Man were generally positive, but more mixed than the previous books and criticised its scientific basis to a greater extent than that of its predecessors. Man After Man, like its predecessors, uses its fictional setting to explore and explain real natural processes, in this case climate change through the eyes of the various human descendants in the book, who have been engineered specifically to adapt to it. The book presents itself as something of a companion piece to Dixon's earlier works After Man: A Zoology of the Future, which illustrates possible evolutionary pathways of nonhuman animals 50 million years in the future when humanity has gone extinct and The New Dinosaurs, which envisions the way the Earth would look today if the extinction of. I get that this book, unlike most sci-fi, concentrates on genetical evolution, not technological revolution.
Unlike the previous two books, which were written much like field guides, the focus of Man After Man lies much on the individual perspectives of future human individuals of various species. A book about transhumans, not post-humans, as the genetic link is unbroken posthumans would be uplifted animals or androids, or other, completely new beings, sharing only culture but not biology. Man After Man is Dixon's third work on speculative evolution, following After Man (1981) and The New Dinosaurs (1988).
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