Silicon Embrace
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Silicon Embrace is a 1996 English language science fiction novel by John Shirley.
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Set in the near future, it tells the story of a group of dilectant journalists in the course of a Second American Civil War. They get involved in a plot set by obscure entities within the US government together with an alien race from Zeta Reticuli, which has influenced the evolution of the human race through genetic manipolations since very ancient times.