“You will study bioscience control, that ought to be useful—it will teach you the folly of thinking you can go against your genetic inheritance, for one thing.”

—  Michael Swanwick, book Stations of the Tide

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 13, “A View from a Height” (p. 236)

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