Designer Genes: Tales from the Biotech Revolution

Tales of the Biotech Revolution

by Brian M. Stableford

From the author of last year's critically acclaimed Year Zero. A tireless believer in the advancement of biotechnology and the wonders it can bring to humanity, Brian Stableford has used his fiction, both short and long, to explore all sides of the advantages and hazards of tinkering with ourselves, our environment, and our planet. Five Star Publishing is pleased to collect eleven of his best stories in Designer Tales from the Biotech Revolution , postulating what life might be like when anything and everything is subject to the whims and desires of man; who will always want something better, bigger, larger. Current, cutting-edge advances in technology and medicine are taken to their rigorous, logically extrapolated extreme, and seen from the views of people and organizations both for and against this kind of genetic and biological manipulation. With an all-new introduction by the author on how these stories came to be, this is a collection sure to delight hard science fiction fans everywhere. Some of the stories in this collection "What Can Chloe Want?," "The Invisible Worm," "Hot Blood," and "The House of Mourning." Brian Stableford lives in the UK.

270 pages, Boardbook

First published March 2, 2004

About the author

Brian Michael Stableford was a British science fiction writer who published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.