They're back now, after all - raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics.
— Firefall by Peter Watts (author) (Page 21)
Fuck you too Peter Watts
This is in a section written - for no obvious reason - as second person. It's the first page after the prologue (where the character we're expected to identify with has just been depicted as an amoral, calculating violent non-person following the removal of half his brain to cure his epilepsy. In a world where most disabilities are fixed in pre-birth genetic fixes or screenings.
Fuck you too Peter Watts
This is in a section written - for no obvious reason - as second person. It's the first page after the prologue (where the character we're expected to identify with has just been depicted as an amoral, calculating violent non-person following the removal of half his brain to cure his epilepsy. In a world where most disabilities are fixed in pre-birth genetic fixes or screenings.