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I know, I know, the science isn't exactly relevant to the story, but still ... even I in Pulp Mode find it hard to swallow the idea that you could just mix up a bowl of various genes from different species, pour the batter into an autowomb, and have a completely viable new species of abhuman kickin 'around the lab in a day or two.
"...to watch you shake and shout it out..." unknownbinaries 2010
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I know, I know, the science isn't exactly relevant to the story, but still ... even I in Pulp Mode find it hard to swallow the idea that you could just mix up a bowl of various genes from different species, pour the batter into an autowomb, and have a completely viable new species of abhuman kickin 'around the lab in a day or two.
"...to watch you shake and shout it out..." unknownbinaries 2010
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The idea of humanity trapped inside a gigantic pyramid surrounded by abhuman monstrosities is pretty cool.
The Night Land Dark Worlds Club 2009
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The idea of humanity trapped inside a gigantic pyramid surrounded by abhuman monstrosities is pretty cool.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dark Worlds Club 2009
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The abhuman is an abomination in th eyes of the Emperor and must be purged.
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Humanity lives in a pyramid, called the Last Redoubt, of metal seven miles high overlooking a world where the sun died millions of years ago: and mankind is besieged by the Five Great Watching Things, the Silent Ones, abhuman men, and Powers both visible and invisible.
SF Signal Reader Challenge #3 - SF Books You Haven't Read 2006
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You cretinous abhuman, you know not what you have wrought.
...and we're back. David Campbell 2008
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He's been abhuman for too long -- people who meant a lot to him have changed while he's been away.
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An abominable abhuman creature, a melding of arachnid and human flesh.
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An abominable abhuman creature, a melding of arachnid and human flesh.
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What I care about is that the book is great horror, and great horror that can only come through a confrontation with something that is abhuman, and very not like us.
The Best Alien Invasion Books Five Books 2025
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What I care about is that the book is great horror, and great horror that can only come through a confrontation with something that is abhuman, and very not like us.
The Best Alien Invasion Books Five Books 2025
Logophile77 commented on the word abhuman
From Wikipedia: "Abhuman is a term used to distinguish a separation from normal human existence. This is different from inhuman, which typically connotes an ethical or moral separation from others."
November 29, 2017