Genetic Tourism was the adventure of choice.

Consciousness is passed from replicant to replicant, each becoming increasingly short-lived.

Introduces the Society of the Genetic Wars where cloning is the main form of human reproduction.

Death is replaced by cloning which preserves all valued memories of past lives.

Anyone found defective is socially and legally obliged to upgrade.

Laws are passed controlling the transmission of genes according to social needs.

Individuals who do not wish to replicate are arrested by the Genetic Police who perform a Forced Replication.

Gene sets became collectible items as well as financial investments.

It was common to remove the second X chromosome and substitute the more valued Y.

The Genetic Police are estalbished to enforce the Genetic Laws.

Each individual is a link in a great chain of replication rather than a separate entity.

An alternate culture of hybridization evolved in which unrestrained mutation was the norm.

Defectives and older model selves are considered Junk DNA to be disposed of by the Genetic Police.

Multiples created many legal and ethical problems for the society.

Individual links who rebel against the Laws join the criminal element in the genetic wilderness.

Hybrids and Replicants form Radical and Conservative Parties.

Those women retained for sexual recreation come mainly from prison populations.

Medicine obsolete because all weaknesses and disease are cured by replication.

Rogue Replicators replicated out-dated and archaic gene sets for a price.

The end of each replication cycle is ritualized as the individual is sacrificed for his upgrade.

People secretly made multiple replicas of themselves although it was highly illegal.

In the early period replication favors the rich while the poor remain undeveloped.

Having no reproductive function, sex has become a purely esthetic public show done by professionals.

Writable genes were especially liable to go bad, resulting in Sudden Gene Death.

The Radical and Conservative conflict eventually escalates to a full out war.

The Third Series of Laws brought Replication completely under state control, regulating every aspect of cloning.

Family life became redefined to mean variants of the self in a tribe of one's own.

No longer necessary for reproduction, women have become redundent and extinct.

Blank genes were often included in one's set in order to facilitate change without having to replicate completely.

The Second Genetic Law established the Zero Tolerance for Imperfection policy.

Thematic index to Wars Site plus extra text.