Good point, there are no examples I can think of where anyone has portrayed #eugenics positively in fiction.https://twitter.com/asbdahfg/status/1451190937179148288 …
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......is Gattaca not a positive depiction?
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No; it forces itself to be logically inconsistent just to have the appropriate anti message
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In the 40k setting, aren't there borderline inhospitable death worlds that are only populated for the purpose of producing excellent soldiers?
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If so that's straight out of Dune. Imperial Sardukar and the Fremen are both the result of that process and the Emperor turns on the Harkonnens because the Baron makes an offhand remark about turning Arrakis into a prison world
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Possibly I missed something in Dune, but my sense was Herbert was rather repping environment by pitting the idea of ‘hard places make strong men’ against the abortive Bene Gesserit breeding programme
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Do I vaguely seem to recall Leto II dabbled in trying to produce humans who couldn’t be seen by prescience?
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Seveneves. Doesn't portray positively or negatively. More neutrally as a fact of the future.
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+1 for seveneves, beyond the concepts it explores, it was just a hell of a good read, and the first part (its divided into 3) was the best at realistically capturing humanity’s reaction to impending doom (and at translating that to being real for the reader)
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