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The Cthulhu Helix
by Umehara, Katsufumi
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 4909473149
- ISBN 13
- 9784909473141
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
US: Kurodahan Press, 2023. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "DNA contains two types of base pair sequences. Exons are meaningful templa tes for making proteins. Introns are meaningless, random sequences. Yet int rons account for ninety-five percent of human DNA. Why is such a huge propo rtion 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 purp ose? 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 drags you screaming into a dar ker 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 unive rse... and its very reason for existence, weaving the Cthulhu Mythos, genet ic engineering, and the battle against extinction into a masterpiece of hor ror. While the book features names and concepts from the Mythos (with good reason), it is entirely independent of it. The first part of this book was originally published in Shibano Takumi's fa mous Uchujin fanzine, promptly winning the 9th SF Fanzine Award, and the bo ok was nominated for both the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Seiun Award. Cover by Noriyoshi Ohrai.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000068014
- Title
- The Cthulhu Helix
- Author
- Umehara, Katsufumi
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 4909473149
- ISBN 13
- 9784909473141
- Publisher
- Kurodahan Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2023
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan / Fiction;
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