Book Review

Genetopia (2006)

Keith Brooke
Reviewed by Neil Drumming | Feb 24, 2006
EW's GRADE
C+

Details Release Date: Feb 06, 2006; Writer: Keith Brooke; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Pyr

Plot
A teen tribesman searches for his missing sister in a world — Earth? — where genetic mutation and manipulation are as common as sunsets.
Better Living Through Technology
Slavery unethical? Not when your servants are bred to love you.
Lowdown
While Brooke hints at a history in which nanotechnology and genetic engineering went awry, the rules that govern this unflinchingly bleak future are never clearly established.

Originally posted Feb 24, 2006 Published in issue #866 Mar 03, 2006 Order article reprints

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