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I need some fiction books on genetic engineering.

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CatchPhrase

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I am open to all suggestions.
I do have one story in mind that has to do with 'normal' people getting sent to an island and the world is run by the genetically engineered. The regular people rebel or something.
 
Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality stories are classic SF, but that is definitely The Island of Dr Moreau.

My favorite version of Moreau isn't any of the movies, it's Danny Elfman's "No Spill Blood" 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Brave New World.

Caution - this book is fucked up.
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One of my favorites, and it's an absolute classic. Everybody needs to read this at some point in life.

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Beggars In Spain, by Nancy Kress. There is the original short story/novella, then the expanded book by the same title. There are sequels as well, Beggars And Choosers, and Beggar's Ride.

There is one short story I read a long time ago that I want to track down again, basically it involved a group of normal kids whose parents couldn't afford to birth them with the latest gene-mods, or they chose to have one normal kid and one mod. It turned out that there had been a defective mod in a certain gene-batch and that a good chunk of that entire generation of gene-mod kids died off once they hit their teen-aged years.
 
Last and First Men - Olaf Stapleton

this is one strange and very imaginative book.


a short story: I Put My Blue Genes On

a satirical look at biological warfare.

 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuse

Clearly a cat that can perform such magnificent feats must have been genetically engineered.
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Then the Green Eggs and Ham were probably engineered, too.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: darkxshade
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuse

Clearly a cat that can perform such magnificent feats must have been genetically engineered.
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Then the Green Eggs and Ham were probably engineered, too.
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I left that out just in case it was just food coloring that made it green 😛
 
The main character in Robert Heinlein's Friday is genetically engineered, as is the main character in Alan Dean Foster's Flinx novels. In modern SF, genetic engineering is usually something that's mentioned in passing, as opposed to being the central thrust of the story.
 
Beggars in Spain was an excellent suggestion by SS. For a somewhat disturbing classic in this area, try Blood Music by Greg Bear.
 
Originally posted by: Kadarin
The main character in Robert Heinlein's Friday is genetically engineered, as is the main character in Alan Dean Foster's Flinx novels. In modern SF, genetic engineering is usually something that's mentioned in passing, as opposed to being the central thrust of the story.
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That's probably because it's become a reality.
 
Originally posted by: Beau
Next - Michael Crichton
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This. It sounds like sci-fi, but Crichton had an uncanny ability to see what's coming in the next few years. Not a great book, but scary in that it probably will become reality. R.I.P. Crichton. 🙁
 
short story- "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne...it has do to with science and perfection.

Novella- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by RLS
Novel-Jurassic Park


I'm an English teacher and teach a unit on this topic...haha.
 
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