A common theme in sci-fi is the suspending of human animation through some type of freezing process to deal with the length of space flight. Usually this technology is available to everyone through some type of freezing mechanism (i.e. Fry in Futurama). This story was unique in that the hibernation process came less from external influences, but mainly from genetic engineering. Would you guys agree that this is one of the more straightforward works we've read?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I thought Plus or Minus was interesting as it explored human adaptation to living in a zero g environment. The idea of genetically engineering humans to be more suited for space exploration is something that I think could be feasible in the future. Even adapts like Glint were still susceptible to cosmic radiation though, leaving radiation resistance as the next challenge for humans in this future.
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I agree that it seemed more straightforward than some of the stories that we have read. I also thought that it was interesting that suspension process was heavily dependent on genetics. That the people were engineered for space condition, but I just found it strange that Mariska found Richard to be disgusting because of his muscles. Do you think this goes against the some stereotypes of space people, i.e the space marine.
ReplyDeleteWhat seemed intriguing to me was that even though they have a wealth of genetic engineering at their fingertips, the peoples of this story still decide to make some humans better than others. You would think that they would embody everyone with the gene to be an astronaut/be able to hibernate for the good of the species, but instead only a chosen few are given that right. The differences between clones still mirror the differences between us now.
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