"Pursuit of Excellence"
| Title | "Pursuit of Excellence" |
| Year for Search | 1984 |
| Authors | Yount, Rena |
| Secondary Authors | Knight, Damon [Francis](1922-2002) |
| Secondary Title | The Clarion Awards |
| Pagination | 155-75 |
| Date Published | 1984 |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Place Published | Garden City, NY |
| Keywords | Female author |
| Annotation | Dystopia of a future in which, if the parents can afford it, children can be engineered for appearance, higher intelligence, and specific skills. The story focuses on a mother wants her ideal daughter and is willing to give up her normal husband and son to be able to pay for her engineering. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 302-18 with an editor's note on 301. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | Female author. |
| Full Text | 1984 Yount, Rena. “Pursuit of Excellence.” The Clarion Awards. Ed. Damon Knight (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984), 155-75. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 302-18 with an editor’s note on 301. Merril Dystopia of a future in which, if the parents can afford it, children can be engineered for appearance, higher intelligence, and specific skills. The story focuses on a mother who wants her ideal daughter and is willing to give up her normal husband and son to be able to pay for her daughter’s engineering. Female author. |
