You Have Arrived at Your Destination is set in not so distant future and deals with the genetic manipulation.

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YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION was a science fiction tale about eugenics, though that word is never mentioned. It's too gee-whiz about self-driving cars, a thing that's already entered its second decade of reality. But, given the choice to alleviate one of the more unsubstantial characteristics, what would be sacrificed and how would that effect the child’s future? Drawing from a wide array of sources, we’ve assembled a database on three generations of Americans that includes not only their gender and ethnicity but information on the environments in which they were raised—like their parents’ religions, educations, professions, and political identifications. I think if you like short stories with terrific writing or just like science fiction you should probably read this.

Of course, this speculative fiction short story You Have Arrived At Your Destination is quite different in tone, genre, almost everything, but you can still see Towles’s wonderful eye for detail in creating the story and the world. The three of them sat there in silence, not looking at each other so much as at the middle of the table—at that small plastic container in which there was and wasn’t their future.

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This short story presents a very near, very realistic future in which prospective parents can choose not just the gender or hair color of their future child, but a lot of their personality attributes, too. Oh Tezza they're so good, a nice snappy break from the usual fare, didn't you read Breakfast recently? It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….Gerhardt, who explains how the firm’s genetic engineering options might influence the life of the couple’s projected son. This is intriguing, fast pacing, memorable page turner and I loved more than Emergency Skin and I excitingly start to add Amor Towles books to my tbr list which is higher than Mount Everest ( I think the astronauts will use my list as jumping point to fly to the moon! This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang.

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What I can't handle is character behavior that seemingly comes out of nowhere with no prior characterization to support it. After graduating from Yale University, Towles was set to teach in China on a two-year fellowship from the Yale China Association. It’s not an unrealistic story about genetic engineering and the moral dilemmas that can come with that.This is a futuristic tale, reminded me a bit of Ray Bradbury, about the future of genetic choices and babies. It might make you wonder about your own choices and what you would do were you to find yourself in the situation the main character finds himself in. And I went looking for reviews and was so happy to see you had feasted your eyes and mind on this gem, too! Choices which are made by viewing videos made by this fertility lab, Vitek, showing the outcomes of various potential choices, the potential successes and failures. Of course with Towles being the author it is beautifully written, slightly humorous and very much to the point.