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All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man is a 2006 work of science fiction and speculative evolution written and illustrated by the Turkish artist C. M. Kösemen under the pen name Nemo Ramjet. It explores a hypothetical future path of human evolution set from the near future to a billion years from the present. Several future human species evolve through natural means and through genetic engineering, conducted by both humans themselves and by a mysterious and superior alien race called the Qu. Inspired by the science fiction works of Olaf Stapledon and Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Kösemen worked on All Tomorrows from 2003 to the publication of the book as a free PDF file online in 2006. Kösemen has announced the first English-language print edition of All Tomorrows in physical form, with new text, updated illustrations, and grammatical fixes. The first English print edition was published in November 2025.
== Summary == Sometime during the Cretaceous period, The Qu visit Earth and abduct presumably thousands of dinosaurs from Earth and begin genetically-engineering them for life on other planets. Then, the Qu begin seeding them across the Milky Way. Centuries after humankind terraforms and colonizes Mars, a brief but catastrophic interplanetary war takes place between Mars and Earth, costing both parties billions of lives. The two planets eventually make peace with each other, launching a wide-scale colonization initiative. Through genetic modification, the humans of Earth and Mars create the "Star People", a new species of human suited for space travel. The Star People proceed to explore and colonize planets across the Milky Way Galaxy. During the human's "Golden Age", they encounter a Large, Bird-Like species, on an alien planet, and when further testing is conducted, is revealed to be a descendant of one of Earth's own dinosaurs. This causes widespread panic, and awe. Some groups of Humans choose to believe that God himself had placed them on there, leading to a resurgence in Religion, however, a leading theory is that an Alien Species had taken them onto the planet. Nevertheless, Humans begin preparing for an invasion, creating weapons capable of Planetary Destruction. Some time later, humans (now exclusively made up of Star People) encounter a malevolent and superior alien force called "the Qu". The Qu's religion motivates them to remake the universe through genetic engineering. A short war follows in which humanity is defeated. The Qu bioengineers the surviving humans as punishment into a range of exotic forms, many of them unintelligent. After 40,000,000 years of domination, the Qu leave the galaxy, leaving the altered humans to evolve on their own in the environments and worlds they were left with under the effects of natural selection. The bioengineered humans range from worm-like beings and insectivores to modular and cell-based species. The book follows the progress of these new humans as they either go extinct or regain sapience in wildly different forms, gradually discovering that the Qu experimented on them. One species—the "Ruin Haunters"—replaces their bodies with mechanical forms, utilizing the technology the Star People had left behind. Now known as the "Gravitals", they begin to colonize the rest of the galaxy while annihilating most life within it, including the other post-human species (except the "Bug Facers", who—like how the Qu treated humanity—are genetically modified by the Gravitals for their own gain). The Gravitals are eventually defeated by the "Asteromorphs", descendants of humanity who escaped the Qu, who then proceed to liberate the Bug Facers and further modify the Gravitals into the less aggressive "New Machines". The final chapters of the book detail humanity's rebound as a posthuman species, their first contact and interactions with a race of aliens from another part of the Milky Way—the "Amphicephali"—and the rediscovery and ultimate defeat of the Qu after 500,000,000 years, concluding with the rediscovery of Earth 560,000,000 years in the future. All Tomorrows ends with a picture of the book's in-universe author—an alien researcher—holding a billion-year-old human skull and writing that all post-human species disappeared a billion years in the future for unknown reasons. The author goes on to state that mankind's story has always been about the lives of humans themselves, not major wars and abstract ideals, concluding by encouraging the reader to: "Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!"