Two printings in this edition through 1966. Expanded from the novelette "Beanstalk," a.k.a. "Giants of the Earth," which appeared in Science Fiction Stories, January 1956. With her lay the destruction - or the fulfillment - of the human race. Goddess or Freak? Aside from being eight feet tall, blonde blue-eyed Sena was unusually beautiful--and extraordinarily unusual. She was a Tetra, one of the handful of people belonging to the genetically engineered super-race. Sena and her Tetra lover Sam attended a university and did their best to ignore the sneers of the "normal" humans, who hated them for their incredible strengths & mental abilities. But the resentment of the "normals" gets to Maurey, the most brilliant Tetra, as he plots a diabolic plan to overpower the human race. Suddenly, Sena is caught in a deadly triangle that might mean the end of the Tetras, and of the world.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Not the best work of this Sci-Fi giant,
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This review is from: Titan's Daughter (Paperback)
The title is deceptive as the stoy's main character is not the one called Titan's Daughter. Instead the main character is her husband/fiancee. This work by "Futurian Society" author James Blish suffers not for the passing years in terms of hard science; the technology is kept generalized and deliberatly vauge. So it reads as well today as when it was published. Its most delightful and disappointing fact is that the villian is more three dimensional then the two other main characters. And that is saying something in a novel meant to show the evils of prejudice by pitting normal(evil) humans against genetically manipulated(good) eight foot giants. A quick read, but has some staid plot mechanisms; old but beloved scientist-grandfather type who is murdered by villian in order to set up the climax.
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Noted science fiction writer James Blish writes a passible furture tale were genetic engineering has produced a group of nine foot giants that are the objects of ridicule for most of the population. The story suffers from several flaws, It's hard to sympathize with the main characters, they are very two dimensional. The vilain is more interesting but not by much. The story also uses some staid plot mechanims such as "hero is framed for murder he did not commit". And the title character is not really developed. The reader can easily see Blish's Utopian leanings, but they just don't register.
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