Premise
What if we could engineer humanity?
A story built on the deliberate genetic or biological redesign of human beings and its social stratifications.
What if we could engineer humanity? in fiction: 5 works
Citizens are decanted and conditioned into castes, a society built on biological engineering.
The Gethenians' ambisexual biology, without fixed gender, is the novel's central speculation.
Genetic selection at birth sorts society into the enhanced and the 'invalid,' the film's premise.
Children are cloned to be harvested for organs, the novel's quiet premise.
An uplift virus meant for primates instead evolves intelligent spiders, the novel's premise.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if we could create life?
- What if reality were a simulation?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if we could edit the mind?
- What if the state controlled everything?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?