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last updated Mar 05, 2019 11:00AM
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If your publisher recommends your book to fans of television shows "Black Mirror" and "Westworld" and your book's blurb says "This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, Arwen Elys Dayton's Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is groundbreaking in both for
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Wowza!! I couldn't get enough of this book. It's creepy, compelling, and akin to something off of a Black Mirror episode. This young adult sci-fi explores the possibilities of genetic engineering. What if we could get re-grow damaged lungs? Replace skin? Upgrade our vision? What if we could cure genetic deficiencies? It all starts innocent enough. A modification here to save a life. To prolong a life. Soon there is nothing left to cure, there are no accidents that can't be fixed. The future isn'
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This book definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone, however it is well worth reading. It makes you think what is your definition of humanity and what would you do to prevent humans from going too far down the technology road.
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Summary: Technology is changing how humans live, their minds and bodies have been enhanced. Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful follows the stories of people who are changed for better and worse because of technical advancements from surgery to correct a weak heart, to being modified to live in the ocean, to creating a separate race based on these modifications.
What’s Good: Dayton created a book about the pitfalls of technology that ...more
Summary: Technology is changing how humans live, their minds and bodies have been enhanced. Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful follows the stories of people who are changed for better and worse because of technical advancements from surgery to correct a weak heart, to being modified to live in the ocean, to creating a separate race based on these modifications.
What’s Good: Dayton created a book about the pitfalls of technology that ...more
Inspired by our modern day scientific experiments with gene modification and growing human organs on animals, Dayton delves into a possible future world that has become obsessed with human modification in a variety of troubling and complex scenarios. As the Bookish Actress' review points out, the true beauty of this book goes beyond an intriguing what-if scenario and asks who wields the power behind the what-if, who gets left behind, and why they do.
A well-written sci-fi book that weaves and exp ...more
A well-written sci-fi book that weaves and exp ...more
Feb 05, 2019
Debrarian
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it was amazing
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Fascinating collection of intertwined SF stories following the changing outcomes of humankind's ability to make mechanical and genetic alterations to ourselves.Â
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