![]() Beyond the obvious question of should such a thing be compulsory, MacLeod ups the stakes in a couple of interesting ways: if exemptions are allowed to women who can articulate an objection (say, on the basis of religious faith), should exemption be allowed for women who have no specific objection? And what if, as well as preventing harmful genetic disorders, the pill also suppressed beneficial genetic variance as well? A fairly oppressive nanny-state government makes taking the Fix all but compulsory. The central premise of the book is that in the near future, a pill ("the Fix") is available to pregnant women that eliminates a wide variety of genetic disorders from their unborn children. However, as a novel, I found it absolutely wretched. ![]() Like my favourite kind of science fiction, it poses some really interesting questions about technology, society, and the interaction of the two. ![]()
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