Del Rey / Ballantine, 1988. Mass market paperback, reprint. This novel was first published in 1978, and is the author's first novel.

1 • Sight of Proteus • \[Proteus • 1\] • (1978) • novel by Charles Sheffield • 223 • Proteus Unbound • \[Proteus • 2\] • (1989) • novel by Charles Sheffield The SFBC published the same text in 1989 but with the title as Proteus Manifest OCLC 30406594

NOVEL.

A series of well-intentioned technologies enable twenty-second-century humans to transform their bodies into any conceivable form, and in the resulting chaos, a dangerous new life form is discovered