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Posted by cklabyrinth (Member # 2454) on :
 
Someone mentioned in a thread a month or two ago that the movie Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman was based on a book.

Does anyone know the name or author of the book? I looked on amazon for it, but couldn't find anything other than the movie.

Thanks.
 


Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :
 
I don't remember the thread in question, so I may not have found the right info, but here is a section from Wikipedia:

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The story shares parallels with Robert Heinlein's 1942 novel Beyond This Horizon. In that story, doctors would design each child by selecting the best of the parents' genes; using genes not found in either parent was forbidden. As in Gattaca, people without engineered genomes were looked down upon. Another similarity between Gattaca and Heinlein's writing is that the protagonists in both Gattaca and Heinlein's story Starman Jones memorize a book on interstellar travel and falsify their identities in order to gain employment.

 
Posted by cklabyrinth (Member # 2454) on :
 
Thank you, Robyn. I will look into it.
 


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