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How loud can money speak? When money is the root of all evil, the rich have regretted their decision to enhance their children for hundreds of years. Many generations later the Enhanced still walk the streets as outcasts- what use is advancement when the world sees you as a shadow and even weather doesn’t care you’re there? The naturals had taken back their world; they’d proven that wealth and power did not prevail over sheer numbers, but now the enhanced want their revenge. After 800 years, would the enhanced finally get the world back? Should they?

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In the year 2519, almost everyone born is genetically engineered. Those who aren't, "the undesirables" are scorned and treated as lesser. A procedure called "soul hopping" is invented and a law is passed allowing such undesirables to be used as vessels for the elderly and sick.

#1 In Designer Babies 06/12/19 #11 In CRISPR 03/02/20 My name is Alexandrite, and I was the first genetically modified baby. The proper one, anyway. I used to be one of twelve, but numbers are expanding rapidly as genetic modification becomes more common. It may be illegal, but scientists don't care. They do what they want. CRISBio is the company causing it, but now, everything is about to change.

The year is 2102. Too many people were being educated; too many "good jobs" were being taken, letting the undesirable jobs be forgotten. NewSoc, a Boarding Society set on rebuilding the world after its near demise, is a community where babies brains are pre-programmed in the womb to only accept information to do the same type of job as their parents, leaving the society in divisions: Meds, Laws, Industrials, Ags, Pols, Lits, and Undesirables. Born with an Undesirable brain, but a heart that wants more, can Margaret defy DNA and have a life different from what fate has given her?

The year is 2050 and everything has advanced beyond human imagination. Now, genetic engineering if not just a dream, but done on almost every baby. The hope in the country of Eugena is to create superior humans. The cost of perfection isn't considered.

It is one thing to hate some physical part of yourself that you cannot change, but what if your parents, rather than fate, were responsible for it? Would you hate them for it? Or would you love that physical part of yourself because you knew it was specifically chosen for you, designed out of love? Would you resent your parents if they chose not to do certain modifications? Would you love your children as much if the designer genes you paid so much for did not come out the way you had anticipated? Would you feel guilty if you did not pay for certain cosmetic genetic modifications? Would you feel pressure to get the latest, greatest, and most expensive modifications for your children, knowing it might affect their self-esteem and self-worth? Would children of this era judge each other for their parents' choices? Would the children with the most expensive modifications be seen as better or worthier than those whose parents either could not afford them or chose not to get them? Would children in such a time be more or less prone to bullying each other over appearances, knowing that physical appearance was entirely due to choices parents made? What would pregnancy look like in an era of designer babies? What additional pressures would there be on parents to pay for cosmetic modifications, knowing it was up to them to determine the health and appearance of their children? While in the waiting room for an in utero procedure, Franchesca ponders the concept of genetic editing, what it says about one's status in The Sectors, and where she fits in. This is Deleted Scene from the Unexpected Inlander series.