Progress Report
9000 words so far just today. Not bad.
My favorite passage:
“… One day science will fix things, so this part of us, this vicious part, will be caged up. The Beast. Maybe we can make a child without the gene for evil, maybe we can make a thinking machine without the subroutine for hate. Maybe.”
“We have the genes and routines now,” she said. “The cure for hate is forgiveness. The cure for sorrow is thankfulness. Even a child can learn these two: no grand scheme of human eugenics to produce the transhuman is needed.”
He gave her a long look. “I wonder if the scientists who made you left out all the flaws of this old, sad, all-too-human race. You should be the mother of new people.”
“Oh my! Such a responsibility. And when should we get started on that project?”
She smiled then, and the towerlight was as bright as moonlight, so he could see her smiling, a dim gold shadow in the night, and so he kissed her.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
