While gene editing could have benefits for humanity, it’s a pipe dream to think it will only be used beneficially.
But as we’ve learned from, well, so many things, what works badly in real life can often work well in fiction.
In Susan Daitch’s biopunk / futuristic steampunk science fiction novel, The Adjudicator (paperback, Kindle), she presents a world in which — as she explains in the following email interview — eugenics have run amok.