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Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign…
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At first, I expected the monster to come from the eggs.
By the end, I realized that the real monster was already outside the shell: political pressure, media hysteria, and a blind bureaucracy convinced that policymaking can govern nature.
I found the novella imaginative, rich, and gripping, but its grotesque science-fiction catastrophe also felt connected to the politics I encounter every day. I often wonder how our foolish decisions (wars, pollution, disastrous policies) have not made us extinct already. Have we simply been lucky?
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