I Put My Blue Genes On

"I Put My Blue Genes On"
Author Orson Scott Card
Country United States
Language English
Published in Analog
Publication type Periodical
Publisher Dell Magazines
Media type Print (Magazine)
Publication date 1978


"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.

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