The Moreau Factor: Difference between revisions

When Jack Valone, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck science journalist well past his Pulitzer Prize days, gets a phone call from a geneticist promising the "scoop of the century", he's curious but more than a little skeptical. But when he goes to do the interview, he arrives in the middle of perhaps the weirdest crime scene investigation of all time. His subject is missing, the room is covered in his blood, and the perpetrator appears to be... a flying werewolf? Soon Valone is pursuing a shadowy group of geneticists working far, far beyond the bleeding edge of genetics and technology. It's the story of a lifetime... IF he can survive long enough to publish.

 

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Contains examples of:

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: The "Puff Girls", an entire species of genetically engineered lab assistants with a very odd semi-inorganic metabolism that gives them near-total immunity to virtually all toxic substances and biohazards.

* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Several species of them, largely by accident due to pleiotropy.

* [[Lego Genetics]]: Specifically averted within the story itself, with a thorough explanation of how pleiotropy makes it impossible.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: They include a few no one would want to see.