Short Stories about Genetics

Few discussions of the impact of new genetic technologies continue for too long without mention of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.  Huxley’s dystopian vision of a world shaped by biological science has inspired many critiques of genetics. Yet it was published in 1932, two decades before Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA.  A new project by the ESRC Genomics Forum attempts to update our visions of the genetic future, with a series of short stories “inspired by genetics”. They’re all freely available, and cover a range of issues around genetics.