Annalee Newitz’s new novel examines the darker side of animals that are ‘lifted’ into a state of self-awareness, asks whose intelligence is being used as a template, Sally Addy
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January 4, 2023
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Terra Formars
In the distant future, tens of thousands of years from now, animals were brought into the so-called Great Bargain: A contract was made between all living things to save the Earth from the consequences of the Anthropocene, and humans are now in control. Including everyone. Common land.
However, you must be human to participate, and to do so you must pass an intelligence test. So we can see the relationship between the species, but…
