His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space
traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth
Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered
hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back
to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not
recognize--a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses--with no
memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But he has not returned
alone. The last survivor of a radical experiment abandoned more than a
century earlier, Blake was genetically altered to be able to adapt to
extreme alien environments, and now he can sense other presences
inhabiting his mind and body. One is a biological computer of
astonishing power; the other is a powerful creature akin to a large
wolf. And Blake is definitely not the one in control. With his sanity
hanging in the balance, Blake's only option is to set out in frantic
pursuit of his past, the truth, his destiny--and quite possibly the fate
of humankind.
A bravura demonstration of unparalleled imagination, intelligence, and
heart, The Werewolf Principle addresses weighty issues of genetic
manipulation that are as relevant today as when the novel first appeared
in print. One of the all-time best and brightest in speculative fiction,
Grand Master Clifford D. Simak offers a moving, stunning, witty, and
thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human.
