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Genetics Gone Too Far?

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Great fiction has warned us of the dangers of playing God with human genetics, but sadly, what's going on these days isn't fiction.

In one of this summer's most-awaited novels, "The City of Mirrors," author Justin Cronin completes his unlikely literary trilogy about a world overrun by vampire-like creatures he dubs "virals."

Unlike Bram Stoker's creation, the disaster unleashed by his monsters is entirely man-made. Men, seeking to "play God," created monstrous hybrids they could never hope to control, with disastrous but completely predictable results.

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While Cronin's work is fiction, its themes ring all too true. As one colleague of mine put it, the book reads like a "warning shot across our bow."

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