The Expert System's Champion

This awesome series is fundamentally a story of Immunity; a condition of being able to resist a particular disease especially through preventing development of a pathogenic microorganism or by counteracting the effects of its products. But diseases do not only manifest within a body. When ecosystems are carefully balanced to support specific ways of life, any type of change can seem like a disease, and appropriate counteractions are deployed. With all of our dreams and discussions of exploring new alien life and their habitats, we possibly underestimate the kinds of reactions that would arise. Even if the immediate biological differences are resolved, what other domino effects are set off when we bring two worlds together? I love the ideas that Adrian explores with his novels and this series is no exception. The second in this series, this addition was a very impressive expansion upon the native life forms, and even the less native ones, and how these many strange forms of life interact.