Act One - 2010 Nebula Award Nominee
"One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled with an act of biological terrorism with potentially world-changing results."-Gardner Dozois, Locus ****
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"One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled with an act of biological terrorism with potentially world-changing results."-Gardner Dozois, Locus ****
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604504552 (1604504552)
ASIN: 1604504552
Publish date: 2010-03-09
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
So, I figured Kress was published, this was free, and I might be able to fit it into my mega-long reading challenge. (Listed alphabetically, Jhiaxus is character 539.) And I was right, because it's all about genetically altering people, both in fetal stage, and also long after they've become adul...
This is a fairly interesting novella that taps into current concerns about genetic engineering, but unfortunately I didn't find it that engaging. The characters didn't seem that developed to me and I had a hard time identifying with or caring about any of them. I think this one might actually work b...
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