Floyd 5.136

They were ordinary people: A visual artist, an engineering student, an assistant secretary, an unemployed carpenter, a school teacher, a wealthy restaurateur and a roaming surfer. They had very little in common and likely would never have come upon each other were it not for the novelty of their propagation.

Late in 2034, all were conceived as some of the very few Mildly Altered Clones that would ever be produced.

They appeared to be no different from those around them but, by the time that they matured into early adulthood, each had suffered thorough the harassment and intolerance that is too often heaped upon those of uncommon lineage.

By chance, a Genetics Researcher had come upon the names and particulars of these Mildly Altered Clones and sought them out for an astonishing new project.

Many thousands of years later the engineer, the secretary, the artist, the surfer, the teacher, the restaurateur and the carpenter finally met.

Amongst the first few questions that they asked of each other was this: “Where are we?”


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Published on July 10, 2015 14:13 Tags: far-future, genes, genetic-engineering, immortality, loning, mystery, robots
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