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Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Ken MacLeod
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Orbit, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841499406
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