Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution
Author: | Brian Stableford |
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Wildside Press, 2013 Five Star Publishing, 2004 |
Series: | Biotech Revolution |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction series that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues that are already controversial, to stories that feature drastically altered worlds. Most of the stories are domestic dramas in which ordinary people are trying to get on with their everyday lives in circumstances that are altering in confusing ways by the year or by the day. Most of them have an element of comedy, because the human predicament is essentially comic, and most of them sound a powerful note of optimism, or at least of hope, because, the world being what it is, biotechnology is the one realistic source of optimism and hope that we have, if we are to come through the present ecocatastrophe relatively unscathed. Great, thought-provoking entertainment by a major SF writer!
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Brian Stableford
- What Can Chloë Want? - (1994) - short story
- The Invisible Worm - (1991) - novelette
- The Age of Innocence - (1995) - short story
- Snowball in Hell - (2000) - novelette
- The Last Supper - (2000) - short story
- The Facts of Life - (1993) - novelette
- Hot Blood - (2002) - short story
- The House of Mourning - (1996) - short story
- Another Branch of the Family Tree - (1999) - novelette
- The Milk of Human Kindness - (2001) - short story
- The Pipes of Pan - (1997) - novelette
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