The Seedling Stars Author:James Blish PRIMOGENITORS. Their creators called them ADAPTED MEN. But the rest of the human race saw them as monsters and tracked them through space to annihilate them. Yet the ADAPTED MEN survived . . . survived and fled to the outmost edges of the galaxy to fulfill their destiny---to seed the universe with the mutated scions of mankind. Millennia lat... more »er, it was only fitting that they should return to a long forgotten planetary system to colonize a hostile world called Earth.« less