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"Science fiction operates a little bit like science itself, in principle. You've got thousands of people exploring ideas, putting forth their own hypotheses. Most of them are dead wrong; a few stand the test of time; everything looks kind of quaint in hind"
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| Control Natural | ||
| A person who is allowed to have an unmodified genetic makeup. |
In this future society envisioned by Heinlein, genetic breeding can work wonders for individuals. However, not everyone benefits.
| "...You make me tired. You've got a cleaner pedigree than ninety-nine out of a hundred, and a chromosome chart that's as neat and orderly as a checker board. Yet you're yiping about it. How would you like to be a control natural? How would you like to have to wear lenses against your eyeballs? How would you like to be subject to a dozen filthy diseases? Or have your teeth fall out, and have to chew your meals with false choppers?"
"Of course, nobody would want to be a control natural," Monroe-Alpha said reflectively, "but the ones I've known seemed to be happy enough. |
| Technovelgy from Beyond This Horizon,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1942 Additional resources -
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