RSSBook Review: The Genius Factory
August 23rd, 2006 | No Comments
Author: David Plotz
Publisher: Random House
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Every parent’s dream is to have a child that is healthy, bright, and good-looking. Robert Graham’s dream was to have a planet of children that were healthy, bright, and good-looking. What if, he wondered, I could, using the magic of masturbation and liquid nitrogen, mate the best men and women from all over the country, and thus produce a generation of perfect children?
The Genius Factory began as a series of articles on Slate.com, collectively known as “Seed”, and tells the tale of the Repository for Germinal Choice, more popularly known as the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. The bank was started by a man on a mission to improve the quality of human stock (thank god he was a benevolent sort) and, according to Plotz, revolutionized sperm banking as we know it.
