History Main / TranshumansInSpace

Compare TranshumanAliens when transhumans are substituted for aliens, GeneticAdaptation when humans adapt themselves to new environments, and SpacePeople when humans adapt themselves to live in outer space.

While TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace certainly qualifies, they are not to be confused.

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* ''Manga/KnightsOfSidonia'' is a fairly standard SpaceOpera of a colony ship of humans fleeing the destruction of Earth by alien creatures known as the Gauna but being written by Creator/TsutomuNihei, transhumanism is rampant to the point where there are no baseline human characters. A short list of transhuman features present in the series are human capable of the photosynthesizing to reduce (but not eliminate) the need for food (everyone except the main character), [[ImmortalityInducer medically induced immortality]] (the command crew), an enhanced HealingFactor implied to be tied to an innate form of biological immortality (main character Tanikaze), [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic replacements for lost limbs]] (Lalah and later Isana), an artificially created third sex that eventually transitions to either male or female after becoming attracted to someone (Isana and a couple of minor characters), mass cloning ([[ClonesArePeopleToo the Honoka sisters]]), SuperStrength (again, the Honoka sisters). And that doesn't even begin to cover some of the more extreme instances in the series courtesy of [[MadScientist Ochiai]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StrangeFrame: Love and Sax'', humans have moved out to the Jovian belt. In order to survive in the different environments of the Jovian moons, most humans have undergone some degree of genetic or cybernetic modification.

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* Creator/GregoryBenford's Galactic Center saga is an early example, written starting in 1977. In the first two books, humans use [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum technology salvaged from hostile aliens]] that attacked the solar system to travel to the center of the galaxy at near light speed. By the third book; their descendants have become post-human cyborgs who rapidly swap out cybernetic implants and can copy much of their memories onto computer chips, despite having [[FutureImperfect lost nearly all of their knowledge of history]].
* ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'' has the Abh, a race of humans with genetically-engineered modifications to better withstand space travel (and also for cosmetic reasons).

* ''Literature/{{Eldraeverse}}'': The Eldrae were transhuman to begin with, being TransplantedHumans genetically modified by {{Precursors}}. Around the time they started venturing out into space they were taking things further such as adding BodyBackupDrive to their "natural" lack of aging.
* ''Literature/GreatShip'': Humanity, who for the most part have starting replacing their brains with ceramic hardware, was the first species to gain access to the titular massive starship.
* ''Literature/{{Aeon 14}}'' is by design a {{reconstruction}} of the setting. {{Cyborg}}s, BioAugmentation, and fully self-aware {{Artificial Intelligence}}s are all over the setting, up to and including known cases of [[MergerOfSouls AI merging with humans]] and organics and AI [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending beyond flesh and silicon]]. At the same time though, they still have recognizably human personalities, behaviors and motivations, and love, hate, fight, laugh and cry.

* Very lightly touched upon in ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars''. While the Abh themselves play the part of TranshumanAliens the novels mention that even more heavily modified groups exist but are generally fairly reclusive. The only non-Abh modified character we meet is a United Mankind intelligence agent who is descended from a group that modified themselves for extended lifespans.
* In ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy That Hideous Strength]]'', N.I.C.E. hopes to bring the vision of the first book's villain to life by creating an interplanetary empire. Unlike him, they have also set their sight on eliminating the flaws of organic matter and hope to replace humanity with a select few minds that have been stripped of their flesh, allowing them to eventually create a totally hygienic and controlled universe.
* ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}'' has a team of transhumans sent to the Oort Cloud to make FirstContact. The entire crew have hibernation genes from prehistoric vampires, the biologists have cybernetic senses at the expense of expressive control, the linguist has four artificially induced split personalities, the combat specialist is wired into a team of drones, the captain is an actual vampire, and the protagonist had a radical hemispherectomy to cure his epilepsy so he has a prosthetic brain hemisphere.
* The Russian sci-fi cycle ''Literature/MoonRainbow'' concerns the emergence of the first transhumans ("exotes") during humanity's initial exploration of the Solar system and their subsequent exile from Earth to a nearby star system. After a massive TimeSkip, the last published novel sees exotes allowed back on Earth in return for their help in exploring the wider galaxy -- since regular humans cannot pilot FasterThanLight spaceships, which the exotes have invented during their exile.
* ''Literature/{{Incandescence}}'' has a combination of BodyUploading and DestructiveTeleportation. If someone moves from the physical world to a processor, their body is destroyed when their mind is digitized. If they want to take on a physical body again, computers design one to their specifications. There are also nodes in interstellar space where people live full-time on a processor. At the start of the book, Rakesh hasn't been in the physical world in 96 years, and his friend Parantham was created de novo on a processor and never had a body to begin with.

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* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' setting ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' takes place in the year 2100 in a solar system colonized by genetically engineered humans, {{Artificial Human}}s, and AI.

* ''Nova Praxis'': A seed AI known as "Mimir" provided the nanotechnology both to convert a human brain into a synthetic neural network and to build stargates.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Mindjammer}}'': Ten thousand years after launching STL colony ships Earth develops FTL travel and the planet's immortal oligarchs reach out to the various branches of humanity scattered throughout the stars.
* ''Blue Planet'' has genetically and cybernetically modified humans and uplifts exploring an oceanic planet.

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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' is a future history where, over the course of the next ten millennia, humanity branches off into millions of modified clades, creates countless varieties of AI, and uplifts seemingly every species on Earth and many other planets within a 5,000-light-year radius of Sol.

* ''Literature/{{Incandescence}}'' has a combination of BrainUploading and DestructiveTeleportation. If someone moves from the physical world to a processor, their body is destroyed when their mind is digitized. If they want to take on a physical body again, computers design one to their specifications. There are also nodes in interstellar space where people live full-time on a processor. At the start of the book, Rakesh hasn't been in the physical world in 96 years, and his friend Parantham was created de novo on a processor and never had a body to begin with.

* Very lightly touched upon in ''LightNovel/CrestOfTheStars''. While the Abh themselves play the part of TranshumanAliens the novels mention that even more heavily modified groups exist but are generally fairly reclusive. The only non-Abh modified character we meet is a United Mankind intelligence agent who is descended from a group that modified themselves for extended lifespans.

* ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'' has the Abh, a race of humans with genetically-engineered modifications to better withstand space travel (and also for cosmetic reasons).

It shouldn't be too surprising that eventually somebody decided to combine the two.

Compare TranshumanAliens when transhumans are substituted for aliens, GeneticAdaptation when humans adapt themselves to new environments, and SpacePeople when humans adapt themselves to live in outer space.

Compare TranshumanAliens when transhumans are substituted for aliens.

* ''Manga/KnightsOfSidonia'' is a fairly standard SpaceOpera of a colony ship of humans fleeing the destruction of Earth by alien creatures known as the Gauna but being written by Creator/TsutomuNihei, transhumanism is rampant to the point where there are no baseline human characters. A short list of transhuman features present in the series are human capable of the photosynthesising to reduce (but not eliminate) the need for food (everyone except the main character), [[ImmortalityInducer medically indueced immortality]] (the command crew), an enhanced HealingFactor implied to be tied to an innate form of biological immortality (main character Tanikaze), [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic replacements for lost limbs]] (Lalah and later Isana), an artificially created third sex that eventually transitions to either male or female after becoming attracted to someone (Isana and a couple of minor characters), mass cloning ([[ClonesArePeopleToo the Honoka sisters]]), SuperStrength (again, the Honoka sisters). And that doesn't even begin to cover some of the more extreme instances in the series courtesy of [[MadScientist Ochiai]]

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* Manga/KnightsOfSidonia is a fairly standard SpaceOpera of a colony ship of humans fleeing the destruction of Earth by alien creatures known as the Gauna but being written by Creator/TsutomuNihei, transhumanism is rampant to the point where there are no baseline human characters. A short list of transhuman features present in the series are human capable of the photosynthesising to reduce (but not eliminate) the need for food (everyone except the main character), [[ImmortalityInducer medically indueced immortality]] (the command crew), an enhanced HealingFactor implied to be tied to an innate form of biological immortality (main character Tanikaze), [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic replacements for lost limbs]] (Lalah and later Isana), an artificially created third sex that eventually transitions to either male or female after becoming attracted to someone (Isana and a couple of minor characters), mass cloning ([[ClonesArePeopleToo the Honoka sisters]]), SuperStrength (again, the Honoka sisters). And that doesn't even begin to cover some of the more extreme instances in the series courtesy of [[MadScientist Ochiai]]

** ''Supremacy'' uses {{Cyborg}} enhancements, ArtificialIntelligence, and eventual BrainUploading to develop a civilization that can flourish irrespective of conditions on alien worlds. Its unique victory option involves returning to Earth to share its technology-born immortality in what might be a BenevolentAlienInvasion, an AssimilationPlot, or [[BlueAndOrangeMorality both]].

** The ''Harmony-Purity'' hybrid Affinity holds up the human race above all others and produces DesignerBabies in an attempt to refine humanity into an UltimateLifeForm.
** The ''Supremacy-Harmony'' hybrid Affinity use both biological and technological enhancements so enthusiastically that it can become nigh-impossible to distinguish flesh from machine, never mind tell whether the being was human to begin with.

* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/AlwaysHuman'' where BioAugmentation "mods" are ubiquitous, humans are beginning to colonize the solar system, and space travelers get a suite of specialized mods to acclimate themselves to off-world conditions as a matter of course.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' is a future history where, over the course of the next ten millennia, humanity branches off into millions of modified clades, creates countless varieties of AI, and uplifts seemingly every species on Earth and many other planets within a 5,000-light-year radius of Sol.

* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'': Most of the Affinities use some variety of this concept when SettlingTheFrontier of alien worlds. In those cases, the Affinity level indicates how far the faction has developed from the human baseline.

** The ''Harmony-Purity'' hybrid Affinity holds up the human race above all others and uses [[DesignerBabies genetic manipulation]] to refine humanity into an UltimateLifeForm.

** ''Supremacy'' uses {{Cyborg|s}} enhancements, ArtificialIntelligence, and eventual BrainUploading to develop a civilization that can flourish irrespective of conditions on alien worlds. Its unique victory option involves returning to Earth to share its technology-born immortality in what might be a BenevolentAlienInvasion, an AssimilationPlot, or [[BlueAndOrangeMorality both]].

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* ''Literature/Schismatrix'' portrays a spacefaring setting dominated by transhumans and split between shapers who favor biotech and mechanists who favor cybernetics. Characters routinely and casually receive bionic and biological enhancements, especially in short fiction set in the shaper/mechanist 'verse.

* "Literature/Schismatrix" portrays a spacefaring setting dominated by transhumans and split between shapers who favor biotech and mechanists who favor cybernetics. Characters routinely and casually receive bionic and biological enhancements, especially in short fiction set in the shaper/mechanist 'verse.

* ''Literature/Schismatrix'' portrays a spacefaring setting dominated by transhumans and split between shapers who favor biotech and mechanists who favor cybernetics. Characters routinely and casually receive bionic and biological enhancements, especially in short fiction set in the shaper/mechanist 'verse.

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In the time-honored SpaceOpera genre, characters tend to be either aliens, robots or standard humans--maybe somebody has a prosthetic limb or two, but generally [[NoTranshumanismAllowed augmentation is frowned upon.]]

SpaceOpera is a time-honored genre with vast open space, but most characters are either aliens or standard humans, maybe somebody has a prosthetic limb or two but generally [[NoTranshumanismAllowed augmentation is frowned upon.]]

{{Cyberpunk}} and its less gloomy successor, PostCyberpunk, on the other hand, feature rampant {{Transhuman}} augmentation but tends to stare back inward at Earth.

Compare TranshumanAliens when transhumans substitute for aliens.

{{Cyberpunk}} and its' less gloomy successor PostCyberpunk on the other hand feature rampant {{Transhuman}} augmentation but tends to stare back inward at Earth.

* In the ''Literature/TakeshiKovacs'' series several star systems have been colonized by uploading their brains to cloned bodies, often with biological or cybernetic enhancements.

* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': During a Singularity gone wrong Earth was evacuated by BrainUploading to artificial bodies produced throughout the solar system.

* ''Nova Praxis'': A seed AI known as "Mimir" provided both the nanotechnology to convert a human brain into a synthetic neural network and to build stargates.

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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': A future history where over the course of the next ten millennia humanity branches off into millions of modified clades, creates countless varieties of AI, and uplifts seemingly every species on Earth and many other planets in a 5,000 light-year radius of Sol.