Earthblood Author:Keith Laumer, Rosel George Brown We don't know what's happened to humanity, but its legacy is a proud one. And embryos with human genes are prized above all others. Roan is purchased as an embryo, brought to term and raised by his adopted parents, and spends his life seeking his roots. His trials and adventures appeal to teenagers and teenagers-at-heart with questions of 'Who a... more »m I?', 'Where did I come from?', 'Why am I different from everyone else?', 'What makes me unique?'.
It is as perfect an example of the space opera genre as you could ask for: a tragic and somewhat flawed main character with a mysterious origin, driven to find what happened to the now-vanished Terran empire.« less