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ISBN: 9781841499406
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PAGES: 416
PUBLICATION DATE: March 7, 2013
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Intrusion
By (author) Ken MacLeod
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child? A plausible and original novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and Brave New World.
Reviews of Intrusion
Insightful and ingenious … Intrusion is both horrific and comic, and deals movingly with the consequences of genetic fixes GUARDIAN A steely, brilliant piece of work DAILY TELEGRAPH
Ken MacLeod
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time. He is currently the Writer in Residence for Edinburgh Napier University’s MA in Creative Writing (2012-2013) and was the Genomics Forum writer in residence in 2009.