I Put My Blue Genes On

"I Put My Blue Genes On" is a science fiction short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, first published in the August 1978 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It also appears in his short story collections Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories and Maps in a Mirror.

"I Put My Blue Genes On"
Short story by Orson Scott Card
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inAnalog Science Fiction and Fact
Publication typePeriodical
PublisherDell Magazines
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateAugust 1978

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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.

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