{"id":1721,"date":"2009-10-24T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T17:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2009-10-24T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:42:12","slug":"tarzan-help-with-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/tarzan-help-with-biotech\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan, Help With Biotech?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I read he 1912 Tarzan of the Apes <\/em>by Edgar Rice Bourroughs. The 1990 Penguin paperback edition has a great cover by Frank Frazetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\n[Copyright (C) Frank Frazetta]<\/em><\/p>\n

I enjoyed the book a lot, and now I have to get hold of the first of the many sequels, the 1913 The Return of Tarzan <\/em>, to see if Tarzan manages to hook up with Jane\u2014who slips through his noble fingers in the final scene of Tarzan of the Apes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m curious about Philp Jose Farmer\u2019s Burroughs\/Burroughs pastiche, \u201cThe Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod,\u201d\u009d but I can\u2019t find it online. Maybe I\u2019ll have to buy a Farmer anthology for this one.<\/p>\n


\n[Copyright (C) E. C. Publications, Inc.]<\/em><\/p>\n

I also dug out my old Mad <\/em>magazine parody, \u201cMelvin of the Apes,\u201d\u009d every frame of which is eiditcally etched into my brain tissues from my first exposure back in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n

On an unrelated front, I\u2019ve been thinking about biotech, genomics, bioengineering, bioinformation\u2014whatever you want to call it. I\u2019m thinking there\u2019s a rich vein of SF story material here that\u2019s ripe for more mining. <\/p>\n

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Of course Paul Di Filippo suggested this years ago in his Ribofunk Manifesto<\/a>, and his story collection, Ribofunk<\/a>. And we can\u2019t forget Greg Bear\u2019s classic Blood Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be curious to hear suggestions about existing SF along these lines and, above all, I\u2019d like some recommendations for readable popular science books on the subject. I’m not so interested in worries about new plagues, I’m more intrigued about how we might tweak living orgainsms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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