Imagine the far, far future. The universe is coming to the end. Humanity has traveled from Earth to fill the galaxies of the universe. But despite their vast knowledge and advanced development, they are helpless to keep extinction from overtaking them. But maybe there is a way to escape! What if they could somehow manipulate the past and change the course of history? So they build a device that allows them to affect people way back in 2010, causing super-intelligent children, called blue children, to be born. These blue kids get together, despite the best efforts of the government to stop them, and they build a fabulous device, a device intended to change the destiny of the whole universe.
After reading this book, I will probably never read another book by this author. I really didn't like this book. For one thing it is too "techie." Take, for example, this typical passage: "In ordinary matter, it seemed, atomic nuclei were made of protons and neutrons, which in turn were made of more fundamental particles called quarks. But the size of a nucleus was limited because protons' positive charges tended to blow overlarge nuclei to bits. But quarks came in a number of varieties. The ones inside protons and neutrons were called ... 'up' and 'down' quarks. If you added another type of quark to the mix, called 'strange' quarks ... then you could keep growing your positive-charge 'nuclei' without limit..." The book is crammed with this kind of jargon. But beyond that, I just found the book depressing.
The only part of the story I enjoyed was the bio-engineered intelligent squid. Sheena the squid was fascinating and I like reading about her and her descendants. Too bad they were only a minor part of the story.
Review from David Soyka on The SF Site: https://www.sfsite.com/04b/man102.htm.
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