Short stories tagged with Genetics

Listing 7 stories.

In the near future, an investigative journalist interviews several key players in the rise of a genetic enhancement drug that has made predominantly white Americans Black.

A cloned teenage girl living on the moon must come to terms with her predetermined job, husband, and future.

Three astronauts on the spaceship Sunbird survive collision with a solar flare only to discover that they have been transported through time, and are being contacted by a space crew of some of the last humans on Earth.

When a flu epidemic leaves people with proteins that make them as hairy as chimpanzees, an American college student and a Mexican scientist in New York City work to develop a cure for mankind’s newest affliction.

Four women–a retired dancer enacting an old dance, a grandmother preparing a birthday dinner for her family, her granddaughter participating in a genetics study, and a researcher quantifying the burden of old memories–all unite under the combined weight of their war-burdened pasts in the contemporary United States.

In the dystopian American south, an Indian boat captain and other humanitarians attempt to overthrow a capitalist food monopoly by seeking a man who can make calories, all while being tracked by murderous IP men working for an agricultural company.

A middle-aged man faces a difficult decision; he can choose to use genetic alteration to have a say over the life of his unborn child, or leave the future up to chance. As he struggles to choose a path, he reconsiders his own past and the struggles he has faced.