The first attempt to send such altered humans to Neptune ends in disaster; one explorer fails to return, the others come back incurably insane.

The population consists of a mix of these altered humans and Atlantian refugees.

They find her with a group of degens (genetically altered humans) called the freakshow.

The rebels are led by Omegas, cybernetically altered humans, battled government forces in the crime-ridden streets.

Emily had only seen pics of the altered humans who had made the first abortive mission to Eridani.

She embarks on a quest to keep this from happening and is joined by one of the descendants of the 'altered' humans from the second book.

After Khan fell, the tyrants' altered humans were declared wards of the United Nations.

The only way to find out, he decided, was to locate the rest of the altered humans.

Perhaps his body would tell them how to prevent similar insanity from destroying the other altered humans on the planet.

The problem is that the planet is inhabited by genetically altered humans.