I recently downloaded two more from this series Randomize by Any Weir and Ark by Veronica Roth - there's a whole bunch of these - I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. Amor Towles won me over with his beautiful historical novel [b:A Gentleman in Moscow|34066798|A Gentleman in Moscow|Amor Towles|https://i. A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.

Mark Porton’s review of You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Sort of an expansion on the Gattica concept where prospective parents can hand select sperm/egg based on genetic analysis- but this take it a step further applying a machine learning algorithm to project the child's prospective future. It asks more questions than it answers and ends on a somewhat unresolved note, but from a literary point of view I think this story is head and shoulders above the others I’ve read so far in this FORWARD collection of SF novellas (4 down, 2 to go). Laurie finally begins to move on, creating a mostly satisfying life for herself, whereas Jack’s inability to be genuine tortures him and turns him into an ever bigger jerk.His spirits raised by the sight, Sam patted his pants and jacket pockets to see if he had any change—but of course he didn’t. I don’t have a child but if I had and the technology took control my entire life, I would happily flip the bird and turn my back to leave the place as like Sam did. It’s been a good year of reading so far and this is the story that I think most are likely to admire as well as be a bit creeped out by! His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St.

You Have Arrived at Your Destination: a short story

Thanks heaps Bianca, hopefully when you get on top of your pile you'll get hold of this one, because it is so good!

It eerily paints a picture of the future implications of genetic engineering, designer fertility clinics that offer more than your choice of sex and eye color of your baby. This story is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from six great authors. and his lumpen over-the-bottom classist narrator/narrative frame was, frankly, eye-rollingly ridiculous. I liked the first part of the story the best, when I was glued to the imaginary future kids on the screen, but I wasn’t in the least disappointed once hubby left the creepy joint and started a new adventure.

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By mapping the foundational information of this large population alongside their eventual experiences, we can start to identify meaningful patterns that help us clarify how nature and nurture have combined to shape the lives they’ve led. We’re not going to introduce any new elements into your DNA, nor are we going to take any existing elements out.We join this story on the day her choices are shown to her husband, the unveiling of which will turn his vanilla world upside down.

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I've loved every story in the FORWARD collection from Prime Reading, but this one left me cold in the third act. Sam arrives at the clinic and sees three video presentations of what the life of a future son could be like. Genetic engineering scares the hell out of me and to see it so vividly in print was downright terrifying. I was interested in reading the short story You Have Arrived At Your Destination after reading Amor Towles’s engrossing novels Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow.This is the question that David faces in 1 Samuel 24 and the question that we all need to wrestle with today as well. The three of them sat there in silence, not looking at each other so much as at the middle of the table—at that small plastic container in which there was and wasn’t their future. Sam and Annie are planning to have a child and Annie has gone to the Vitek clinic while Sam is out of town to get the process started. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents.