[Dragaera] Boing!

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 9/7/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, in the reviewer's defense, he is basically paraphrasing Aliera's
> > talk in chapter nine of /Jhereg/... Since the members of each House really
> > *are* genetically descended from the animals that represent them (except
> > for Jhereg), he statement is technically correct.
>
> I don't think so.  First of all, "descended" isn't really the right
> term, since the genes were added by artificial manipulation.
> Dragaerans are transgenic organisms, and the House of the Dragon is no
> more descended from dragons than a genetically modified rabbit that
> glows in the dark is descended from fluorescent jellyfish.

Aliera claims that if you go far enough back, you'll "find actual
dragons in [her] lineage." That doesn't sound like transgenic
manipulation to me.

-Max

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