Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
Margaret AtwoodHaving been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.
Margaret Atwood