I Put My Blue Genes On
| "I Put My Blue Genes On" | |
|---|---|
Periodical | |
| Publisher | Dell Magazines |
| Media type | Print (Magazine) |
| Publication date | August 1978 |
"I Put My Blue Genes On" is a
Analog. It also appears in his short story collections Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories and Maps in a Mirror
.
Plot summary
The story takes place far in the future. Earth has become an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare. After fleeing Earth decades earlier, a contingent of humans returns to find a small band of beings, now not quite human, still fighting an enemy which has long since been annihilated. The title refers to the planet's surface, which has become a swirling mass of blue goo, a result of the biological agents acting and reacting one with another.
See also
- List of works by Orson Scott Card
External links
- I Put My Blue Genes On title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The official Orson Scott Card website
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