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Bio-Futures
| Author: | Pamela Sargent |
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Vintage, 1976 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Suppose we could:
--genetically alter our bodies so that we could settle alien environments
--use cryonics (the freezing of tissues and organs) to preserve seriously ill people until a cure is found to treat them, or freeze people now alive so that they could be revived in a future when immortality is a reality
--reproduce ourselves by using artificial wombs, test-tube fertilization, or cloning
--plant electronics in human brains so that we could control behavior seen as undesirable
All these possibilities may become actualities in the near future. Will we use these technological advances to transcend our biological destinies, or will we refuse to meddle with nature and reject them altogether? In this collection, Kate Wilhelm, R. A. Lafferty, Leonard Tushnet, Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Poul Anderson, James Gunn, Thomas N. Scortia, Frederik Pohl, and James Blish imaginatively consider what our biological future selves will be like.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Pamela Sargent
- The Planners - (1968) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
- Slow Tuesday Night - (1965) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
- In re Glover - (1972) - short story by Leonard Tushnet
- Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come - (1971) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
- Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Call Me Joe - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
- The Immortals - (1958) - novelette by James E. Gunn
- The Weariest River - (1973) - novelette by Thomas N. Scortia
- Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
- Watershed - (1955) - short story by James Blish
- Further Reading - essay by uncredited
- About the Authors - essay by uncredited
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