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>One of the best known sf stories dealing with eugenics is C. M. Kornblunth's
>"The Marching Morons"--anthologized in lots of places, including Silverberg's
>SF Hall of Fame series. It's usually considered a classic, though I confess
>I've always found it an unpleasant story. It deals with a society in which
>an intelligent elite gets tired of dealing with a stupid majority.
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>Nancy Kress's Beggars in Spain and its sequel (Beggars and Choosers?) deals
>with some of the same issues--a society split between the intellectually
>brilliant and the resentful normals. Not precisely eugenics, but dealing
>with some related issues. And of course Brave New World.
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>Kevin Mulcahy
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In thinking about eugenics novels in SF, I immediately thought of the novel
_Beyond this Horizon_ by Robert Heinlein.
A 21st century civil war is fought against an evil underground organization
over just what is the proper use of eugenics in a modern society.
The novel is, of course, laced with Heinlein's usual pro-militarism, but
eugenics is recognizably the unifying theme.
Hope this is helpful.
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