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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:02:24 -0500
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On 3/15/2024 12:38 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 14/03/2024 18:52, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1bcw0l7/scifi_books_humans_with_animal_genesmodifications/
>>
>> "I read a book maybe 10 years or more ago, set in a future where 
>> humanity had played with gene splicing/gene therapy to the point where 
>> it was entirely common to see people with animal attributes. There was 
>> a whole community of peoples who had Cat/Lion genes who had some 
>> feline features and some of their agility, people with snake genes 
>> that had some scaled patterns on their skin and had sensuous, smooth 
>> movements, and so on. I’ve been trying to find this book for YEARS, 
>> but I have no idea what it was called and can’t really remember the 
>> plot except that there was a conflict between “normal” humans and 
>> those who had their genes modified. Any help, suggestions, or even 
>> recommendations about similar books?"
> 
> I don't have an answer and I'm hesitating
> to create a reddit account, I see it as
> something that happens to other people.
> But I'd ask whether this is a "young adult"
> reader book (and we could debate which
> stories since Dr. Moreau quality), and
> also whether this is about being born
> with animal traits, or about getting a
> treatment as a teenager or an adult.
> 
> It's extremely unlikely to be
> Ben Aaronovitch's _Moon Over Soho_ (2011),
> in which, happily as a minor theme,
> animal-hybrid people have been devised
> by an evil sex magician.  One appears
> as the magician's henchman.

Can you not see Reddit posts without creating an account ?

Lynn