I Put My Blue Genes On

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name = I Put My Blue Genes On
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author = Orson Scott Card
country = United States
language = English
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published_in = "Analog"
publication_type = Periodical
publisher = Dell Magazines
media_type = Print (Magazine)
pub_date = 1978
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"I Put My Blue Genes On" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories" and "Maps in a Mirror". It was first published in the August 1978 issue of "Analog".

Plot summary

The story takes place far in the future. Earth has become an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare. After fleeing Earth decades earlier, a contingent of humans returns to find a small band of beings, now not quite human, still fighting an enemy which has long since been annihilated. The title refers to the planet's surface, which has become a swirling mass of blue goo, a result of the biological agents acting and reacting one with another.

ee also

*List of works by Orson Scott Card
*Orson Scott Card

External links

* [http://www.hatrack.com The official Orson Scott Card website]