SvennoJ on 28 January 2017
| Super_Boom said: I feel like I read a book or saw a movie with this premise before. Oryx and Crake maybe? Need to look that up again to remember what it was about. Anyways...the thought of this make very uncomfortable. Though I won't deny being a hypocrite...seeing as how much I love beef and pork. |
Alestair Reynold's Revelation space has Hyperpigs as a species.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1676
Somewhere before the dawn of the Demarchist era, in the twenty-first or twenty-second century, not far from the time of Clavain's own birth, a spectrum of human genes had been spliced into those of the domestic pig. The intention had been to optimise the ease with which organs could be transplanted between the two species, enabling pigs to grow body parts that could be harvested later for human utilisation... The genetic intervention had gone too far, achieving not just cross-species compatibility but something entirely unexpected: intelligence.
Pubblished 16 years ago. Be careful what you write, it might come true.
