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Deviant Numbers
The great gene mapping project of the late 20th and early 21st centuries had located every trait on the double helix. Splicing, and then cloning, had made it possible to determine the inclusion of any desired characteristics or the exclusion of any fault.
Humans could be designed like an automobile, created for specific purposes, and then reproduced exactly and endlessly by cloning. And they had, by the thousands, when trust in ordinary biology had become too risky. And to ensure that biology would mind its own business, genes for sexual preference had been controlled.
No mating would be allowed...
Humans could be designed like an automobile, created for specific purposes, and then reproduced exactly and endlessly by cloning. And they had, by the thousands, when trust in ordinary biology had become too risky. And to ensure that biology would mind its own business, genes for sexual preference had been controlled.
No mating would be allowed...
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First published June 6, 2011
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June 13, 2012
Premise was interesting, but I got bored 1/2 way through knowing that I knew how it would end. I was right and not impressed. I didn't care for either the "end" or what should have been called the epilogue.
June 9, 2021
One of my favorite sci fi short stories. First read....long ago..... 🙂 when published in Dime store novel paper. Have re-read several times. Enjoyed to Orwellian esque setting and storyline.
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