Oh-miles-WHAT

[jmtorres]

I er, realized that there's a volume I've reread less often even than Mirror Dance--that being Borders of Infinity.

Here we have this gem in Bel's introduction in Labyrinth: Bel Thorne, the Ariel's commander, was a Betan hermaphrodite, man/woman descendant of a centuries-past genetic-social experiment every bit as bizarre, in Miles's private opinion, as anything rumored to be done for money by House Ryoval's ethics-free surgeons.

Ryoval. What.

Comments

[grey_bard]

I am wagering less on the simple "Oh noes, ethics!" and more on the "This is hard to make work right!".

I suspect little tweaks here or there that produce a "normal-looking" human being don't "count". And the really damn obvious changes like Taura's would probably be damn hard. And without being able to carry on their work for several generations with the full scientific community behind them, it would, you know. Take a while to make one that lived and worked well. But I could be really cynical.