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Paul McAuley - The Secret of Life




THE SECRET OF LIFE
Paul McAuley


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
THE SECRET OF LIFE Copyright ┬й 2001 by Paul McAuley
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by Ellen Datlow
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ISBN: 0-765-34193-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001027121
First edition: June 2001
First mass market edition: May 2002
Printed in the United States of America
0987654321




This is for Georgina




Acknowledgments

Ideas in this novel were derived in part from books and articles by John Barrow, Robert Cook-Deegan,
Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Armand Delsemme, Anders
Hansson, Murray Gell-Mann, James Gleick, Stephen Jay Gould, Bruce Jakosky, Stuart Kauffman, Kevin
Kelly, Christopher Langton, Lynn Margulis, Michael Parfit, Jeremy Rifkin, Ian Stewart, Edward O.
Wilson, and Robert Zubrin, and from the articles collected in Mars, edited by Hugh Kieffer, Bruce
Jakosky, Conway Snyder and Mildred Matthews.

Some races increase, others are reduced, and in a short while the generations of living creatures are
changed, and like runners relay the torch of life.

тАФLucretius, De Rerum Natura