Series: Short Story Collection
Genre: SF
Publisher: Tor
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
Publisher: Tor
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: The twenty-first century, it's often remarked, will transform our knowledge of biology the same way that the twentieth century transformed physics. With knowledge, of course, comes application. And with the application of all we are learning about genetic engineering come social and ethical questions, some of the knotty.
This is where science fiction enters, stage left. Scientific laboratories are where the new technologies are rehearsed. Science fiction rehearses the implications of those technologies. What might we eventually do with our newfound power? Should we do it? Who should do it? Who will be affected? How? Is that a good thing or not? For whom?
Of the thirteen stories in this book, eight are concerned with what might come out of the beakers and test tubes and gene sequencers of microbiology. Not everything in these stories will come to pass. Possibly nothing in them will; fiction is not prediction. But I hope that stories at least will raise questions about the world rushing in on us at the speed - not of light - but of thought.
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