title: LIFE Wonders of Life: A Fantastic Voyage Through Nature
author: Editors of Life
description: The editors of LIFE Magazine deliver another typically handsome coffee table compilation, a "wild book" in their opinion, of 100 photographs focusing on all shapes and sizes our living world. Divided into two sectionsFlora and Faunathe book examines plant life and vegetation in some of the most unexplored corners of the world (as well as many spots readers would expect), and takes a closeoften very closelook at mammals and insects. Readers will explore California's seemingly endless poppy fields and the wonderfully vibrant seagrass that grows near Mexico's Guadalupe Island, for instance, and find breathtaking beauty in underwater images of larger-than-life coral reefs remarkably various in color and shape, and the snakes, seahorses, sponges, and fish that inhabit them. The editors coyly bury the lead by saving "one animalthe human kind" for last, using a famous shot of a six-month old fetus from their 1965 cover story, "Drama of Life Before Birth," to wrap things up. Including five removable photos by such notable photojournalists as Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE's third "Classic Collection" volume is striking and accessible enough to interest all ages. Photos. (Oct. 19) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  _Thanks to “bluegene,” life is long. But out Route 42 near Goshen, it’s also
  kind of dull. Just the thing to encourage an expedition into the only actual
  other universe, the place where…but that would be telling._
  
  
  _This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by senior editor[Patrick
  Nielsen
  Hayden](https://www.tor.com/tags/Edited%20by%20Patrick%20Nielsen%20Hayden)._
  
  
  
  
  
  I first met Jack when we were vegetating in the Journey’s End senior facility
  in Harrods Creek, Kentucky. One day some scientists discovered something they
  trademarked as bluegene, and everyone’s meds got better. Journey’s End went
  out of business. Thanks to bluegene, society could dose us geezers and set us
  free. Bony cattle in patchy pastures.
  
  
  We still needed housing, so they opened up some abandoned exurban condos.
  Plenty of thos