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The Wrong Planet
Designer genetics: humankind’s salvation or its ruin?
Seth Michaud isn’t sure. Which is strange, considering his work as a psychologist for Home Harmonix, the world’s first free market gene-editing clinic. Seth unwittingly becomes the face of Home Harmonix when he catches the attention of Stephen Versailles, a wildly popular internet video personality. Versailles’s political and professional connections threaten to broaden Seth’s horizons, and yet even as his star rises, his world is quietly falling apart.
At home, his wife Ingrid’s identity crisis drives her into the clutches of a new cult-like online church, wherein her waxing disinterest in marriage and motherhood is nourished to sinister ends. As she systematically pushes Seth away from her, he falls ever more deeply in lust with a colleague, the brilliant yet unknowable geneticist, Dr. Maria Greenberg.
Earth’s climate might be changing. The planet might be dying. Cataclysm might be just around the next corner. And the unchecked growth of the human population might be the cause of it all. Observing from the precipice, Seth might be uniquely positioned to help save humanity from itself.
He’s just not sure how deeply he cares.
Seth Michaud isn’t sure. Which is strange, considering his work as a psychologist for Home Harmonix, the world’s first free market gene-editing clinic. Seth unwittingly becomes the face of Home Harmonix when he catches the attention of Stephen Versailles, a wildly popular internet video personality. Versailles’s political and professional connections threaten to broaden Seth’s horizons, and yet even as his star rises, his world is quietly falling apart.
At home, his wife Ingrid’s identity crisis drives her into the clutches of a new cult-like online church, wherein her waxing disinterest in marriage and motherhood is nourished to sinister ends. As she systematically pushes Seth away from her, he falls ever more deeply in lust with a colleague, the brilliant yet unknowable geneticist, Dr. Maria Greenberg.
Earth’s climate might be changing. The planet might be dying. Cataclysm might be just around the next corner. And the unchecked growth of the human population might be the cause of it all. Observing from the precipice, Seth might be uniquely positioned to help save humanity from itself.
He’s just not sure how deeply he cares.
449 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2022
About the author
G.S. Richter
7 books7 followersG. S. Richter is the author of In Fear of Praise, a pitch-black literary comedy, and Nihil's Retina, a pitch-black sci-fi comedy.
Something of a depressive realist, he does not traffic much in sci-fi, but he will probably end up in that terrain.
His books can be found at www.gsrichter.com.
Something of a depressive realist, he does not traffic much in sci-fi, but he will probably end up in that terrain.
His books can be found at www.gsrichter.com.
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