Here is a book reviewed by the NYTimes on how science might indeed make such things real...
Leon Kass has a book "Beyond therapy: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness"...it's on line but alas I can't get the link from the Philippines...
www.bioethics.gov/reports/
Everyone thinks of "Brave new world"...but I always think of Cordwainer Smith and his underpeople...the temptation to make life utopia by having chimera do all your work is the real temptation...and chimera, unlike illegals or the "delta" men might not get the idea they have human rights (although in Smith's story the dead lady of Clown town, that's exactly what happens)...
On the other hand, one thinks of enhancing humans like Heinlein's lady Friday...who , after 300 pages of adventures, smuggling, fighting, and hopping in and out of various beds, finds her true happiness in an extended marriage as a farm wife...fully accepted as a human being...
Hmm...sounds like the theme of X men...
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