Download or read book The Helix and the Sword written by John C. McLoughlin and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years in the future, Dyson Tessier and Pantalog, his computer lodged in the body of a cheetah, undertake a journey back to Earth, the poisoned planet which all had fled following the protein wars.