@booklet {10270, title = {{\textquotedblleft}It{\textquoteright}s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning: DNA tweaks won{\textquoteright}t fix our problems{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The New York Times}, year = {2019}, note = {

\ Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 123-26, with an editor\’s note on 123.\ 

}, month = {May 27, 2019 with well over 200 comments}, abstract = {

The story reflects on a future experiment to improve the intelligence of poor children by modifying their DNA. While it is successful in that IQ is raised, it fails to make substantive difference because the entire U.S. social order favors the wealthy.

}, keywords = {Chinese-American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-5344-4959-6 }, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html?searchResultPosition=1}, author = {Ted Chiang (b. 1967)} } @booklet {5265, title = {"Liking What You See: A Documentary"}, howpublished = {Stories of Your Life and Others}, year = {2002}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 113-49.

}, month = {2002}, pages = {281-323 plus author{\textquoteright}s (331).}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. \"Lookism\", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that \"good\" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.

}, keywords = {Chinese-American author, Male author}, author = {Ted Chiang (b. 1967)} }