<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I am writing a book on the far future based on eugenics. Then, genetics has been nearly perfected and many changes have been made to humans, both physical and mental.<br>
<br></div>I would like to find out fellow members' ideas on just what changes should be made in us if that were possible and discuss them. And yes, I might include them in my book and give you credit.<br></div></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What kind of story are you looking to write? Not all science fiction need dwell on all the details.<br><br></div><div>Put another way, how central is eugenics to the story, and what form did it take? Was it just general improvements handed out to everyone, or were there specific things selected for? Was it via retrovirus or other germline tinkering, or was it the "enforced selective breeding" type that has had major problems when tried before? Were there improvements handed out mainly to babies, rich babies first, with technology struggling to give the same benefits to those already born? And so on.<br>
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