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The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg

Spacers were bred to be tall and strong, Earthers were bred to be short and petite..

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The Country Doctor by Steven Utley

A country doctor finds his niche in an isolated town - but has he hurt the locals as much as he has helped?..

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The Human Genre Project edited by Ken MacLeod

A collection of short stories inspired by human chromosomes...

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Genetopia by Keith Brooke

A tale set on a world with "warped biology full of hidden dangers and wonders". ..

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The Last of the O-forms by James van Pelt

Earth has been hit by a mutation plague and there are no more normal births. . . ..

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Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

Young Miles Vorkosigan investigates the possible murder of a baby with birth defects who was born in a remote village that still reviles and shuns "muties". ..

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Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster

Calhoun of the Interstellar Medical Service helps an isolated population that is especially vulnerable to disease...

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Last Stand of the Elephant Man by Jennifer Pelland

The Elephant Man awakens in a future where the advances in medicine have made deformity a fashion statement...

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Imago by Amy Sterling Casil

: "...something has gone very wrong. Changed freaks, victims of the Human Mutational Virus, roam California's streets. DisLex, the entertainment utility, monitors everyone's lives; yet few k..

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Chromosome Circus by Amy Sterling Casil

A mysterious virus has produced a lower-class subculture of genetically defective humans who live out their bitter lives in group homes, or as freaks in the circus..