Review: Interesting, but seriously flawed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2011
SciFi requires, almost by definition, some suspension of disbelief. But, once the rules are set up, the author has to stick with them. So, after inventing a plot device of harmful effect of introducing transgenic DNA into an organism, the author should have followed the consequences logically. He failed to do that correctly.More importantly, good SciFi tries to speak about us, here and now (as this one does). To do that, aspects of story not "covered" by "suspension of disbelief waiver" have to be convincing. Leaving the incredibly naive description on genetic engineering procedures aside, I still have serious complaints: results of a single study, however important they might be, don't go unchecked or unchallenged, don't get "breaking news" TV coverage, and don't result in stock market shocks the same day. Affected big business does not wait a year to try and discredit the results, either by funding "competing studies" often with misinterpreted or outright forged results, or by launching smear campaigns against the researchers. I will not spoil the reading with more.Again, I regret that Amazon's rating system is not more finely grained: on 1-10 scale, I would give this story 5. It is still worth reading, but be prepare to wince now and then.