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Humans are the most successful animals on the planet Earth – successful, that is, in the fight with other animals. If it’s a question of fighting for food or land, then we humans always win. We cut down trees, build houses and factories, grow our own food. The animals must go and find another place to live … if they can.

We humans always win because we are intelligent. We can think, talk, use tools, make wonderful machines. We are extremely clever animals …

Perhaps too clever. Perhaps people in the future will think differently. Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives in about 22,500 AD, on a planet a long way from Earth. She likes clothes and dancing, and worries about who she will marry. She has never seen a tree. She has never seen any animal or bird. She knows what animals are, of course, because there are stories about them in the Book of Remembering. But who can believe old stories like that?