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FROM: "Wilker, Garnetta" <[removed]@loswego.k12.or.us>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 3:32 PM

I'm looking for suggestions of science fiction short stories concerning
genetics/ genetics engineering. One of my science teachers would like
to use these with his eighth grade classes. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

Garnetta Wilker
Library Technology Specialist
Reading Teacher
Webmaster

Lake Oswego Junior High School
2500 Country Club Road
Lake Oswego, OR 97034

(503) 534-2335
(503) 534-2341 FAX
[removed]@loswego.k12.or.us

FROM: Darla Brown <[removed]@kckpl.lib.ks.us>
REC'D: 2/11/02, 8:27 PM

A few suggestions:

Mutants: Eleven Stories of Science Fiction. Robert Silverberg, ed. 1974.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson. Anthology of collected works.

"Last Question, The," Isaac Asimov. 1959. Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the
Near Future. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Themes of artificial
intelligence and definition(s) of intelligence.

Science Fiction Adventures in Mutation, Gorff Conklin, ed. 1956. New
York: Vanguard Press. An anthology of collected works.

Dann, J. and G. Dozois (eds.) Nanotech: Ten Mind-Blowing Tales From the
Cutting Edge of Technology. 1998. Ace Books: New York, NY

Pamela Sargent's 1976 story "Clone Sister" by Pamela Sargent

Thomas M. Scortia's "Flowering Narcissus"

Theodore L. Thomas' "The Clone", in Fantastic, Dec 1959

Robert Silverberg's story "Ishmael in Love"

Leo Szilard's story "The Voice of the Dolphins",

Clifford Simak's story "Operation Stinky"

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 story "Nine Lives"

Doyle, Debra, and James D. MacDonald. "Remailer" in Constance Ash, ed.,
Not of Woman Born (1999) (a mystery in which a third sex has mutated /
evolved)

Hand, Elizabeth "The Month of Athyr"


"Wilker, Garnetta" wrote:
>
> I'm looking for suggestions of science fiction short stories concerning
> genetics/ genetics engineering. One of my science teachers would like
> to use these with his eighth grade classes. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Garnetta Wilker
> Library Technology Specialist
> Reading Teacher
> Webmaster
>
> Lake Oswego Junior High School
> 2500 Country Club Road
> Lake Oswego, OR 97034
>
> (503) 534-2335
> (503) 534-2341 FAX
> [removed]@loswego.k12.or.us
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 9:41 AM

>From: "Wilker, Garnetta" <[removed]@loswego.k12.or.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Looking for SF Short Stories
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:27:46 -0800
>
>I'm looking for suggestions of science fiction short stories concerning
>genetics/ genetics engineering. One of my science teachers would like
>to use these with his eighth grade classes. Any suggestions?
>
>

My first suggestion would be to look under the name of Martin H. Greenberg.
This very prolific editor specializes in themed anthologies, often of
original work. I don't doubt he's done one on such engineering.

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/02, 10:11 AM

At 01:27 PM 2/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm looking for suggestions of science fiction short stories concerning
>genetics/ genetics engineering. One of my science teachers would like
>to use these with his eighth grade classes. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Garnetta Wilker

A recent pb anthology:

* *Genometry (with Gardner R. Dozois) (Ace 0-441-00797-X, Jan 2001,
$5.99, 272pp, pb, cover by Walter Velez) SF anthology with 11
stories about genetic engineering.

contains

Brunner, John, (1934-1995)
--Good with Rice, 1994. (Asimov's, March, 1994.)

Dunn, J. R.,
--The Other Shore, 1991. (Omni, December, 1991.)

Egan, Greg, (1961- )
--Chaff, 1993. (Interzone, December, 1993.)

Gunn, Eileen,
--Stable Strategies for Middle Management, 1988. (Asimov's, June, 1988.)

Lawson, Chris,
--Written in Blood, 1999. (Asimov's, June, 1999.)

McAuley, Paul J., (1955- )
--The Invisible Country, 1991. (When the Music's Over, 1991.)

Pohl, Frederik, (1919- )
--The Kindly Isle, 1984. (Asimov's, November, 1984.)

Reed, Robert, (1956- )
--Whiptail, 1998. (Asimov's, October-November, 1998.)

Smith, Cordwainer, (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, 1913-1966)
--A Planet Named Shayol, 1961. (Galaxy, October, 1961.)

Stableford, Brian, (1948- )
--The Pipes of Pan, 1997. (F & Sf, June, 1997.)

Sterling, Bruce, (1954- )
--Sunken Gardens, 1984. (Omni, June, 1984.)

Here's an online review of the above:

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue198/books.html

***************

Following is probably not suitable for eighth graders, but I'll list
it for possible interest of others:

Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution Brian M.
Stableford (Simon & Schuster UK
0-671-71734-0, Feb ’91 [Mar ’91], £13.99, 229pp, hc); Collection of ten sf
stories, and one article, about the possible effects of genetic
engineering. Although this is Stableford’s first collection, all but one of
the pieces
come from the last five years. Strongly recommended. (PSP)
1 • Introduction • in
7 • Bedside Conversations • ss IASFM Dec ’90
21 • A Career in Sexual Chemistry • nv Interzone #20 ’87
43 • Cinderella’s Sisters • ss The Gate #1 ’89
59 • The Magic Bullet • nv Interzone #29 ’89
81 • The Invertebrate Man • nv Interzone #39 ’90
109 • The Furniture of Life’s Ambition • nv Zenith 2, ed. David S.
Garnett, Orbit, 1990
129 • The Fury That Hell Withheld • ss Interzone #35 ’90
149 • The Engineer and the Executioner • ss Amazing May ’75; revised
165 • The Growth of the House of Usher • nv Interzone #24 ’88
191 • And He Not Busy Being Born... • ss Interzone #16 ’86
209 • Mankind in the Third Millenium • ar Social Biology and Human
Affairs v54 #1 ’88; originally published in
Japanese in Japan Research and Technology 249 (1988).

***********

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Meg Justus <[removed]@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 2/13/02, 1:39 PM

Labyrinth, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Meg Justus
Pierce County Library

FROM: "Wilker, Garnetta" <[removed]@loswego.k12.or.us>
REC'D: 2/21/02, 2:30 PM

Thank you to all who provided me with wonderful short story suggestions
for SF/ Genetic Engineering for eighth grade science students. The
lessons were successful (and they were exposed to new literature!).

Garnetta Wilker
Library Technology Specialist

Lake Oswego Junior High School
2500 Country Club Road
Lake Oswego, OR 97034

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