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The novel idea reminds me a bit of the Greg Egan short story The Moral Virologist[0] in his collection Axiomatic. "John Shawcross is a fundamentalist Christian
by selfsimilar 5y ago
The novel idea reminds me a bit of the Greg Egan short story The Moral Virologist[0] in his collection Axiomatic.
"John Shawcross is a fundamentalist Christian who is disappointed that safe sex has limited the spread of HIV/AIDS, which he considers to be God's punishment for sexual immorality; consequently, he becomes a virologist, so that he may create a new, more lethal virus."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Virologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Virologist
- selfsimilar 5y agoText of the story is here[0], as linked from Wikipedia. [0] http://www.gregegan.net/MISC/MORAL/Moral.html http://www.gregegan.net/MISC/MORAL/Moral.html
- setgree 5y agoIt's also kind of the plot of Dan Brown's 'Inferno', per wikipedia: > Brooks explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's growth, and that he... had supposedly developed a new biological plague that will cause infertility in a third of the worlds' population, in order to solve the problem of the world's impending overpopulation... ...The plague that Zobrist created is revealed to be a vector virus that randomly activates to employ DNA modification to cause sterility in one third of humans. Close enough! it's hard to have an original idea