gengineering n.
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1985
Edward Llewellyn
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Gengineering—I thought it was crossbreeding crops. But a people who could build starships could engineer genes. Produce a desired pattern. A High Human pattern. Stamp in a curiosity-block. And an unquestioning Faith.
Lords of Creation in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Mar. 115/1
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1993
John Brosnan
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Apart from gengineering they also excelled in computer technology and there they took another turning so far avoid by humanity…they eventually constructed biological computers.
Opoponax Invasion (1994) 188
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1998
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Paul J. McAuley
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The original colonists had undergone extensive gengineering to adapt them to microgravity.
Gardens of Saturn in Interzone (#137) Nov. 9/2
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1999
Vernor Vinge
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Despite ancient drugs and millennia of gengineering, the full pull of planetary gravity was a constant, debilitating distraction.
Deepness in the Sky lxiv. 573
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2012
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Benjamin Crowell
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Back then, nobody had really known how gengineering would play out. These days everybody realized that if you wanted your kid to be a professional mathematician, you needed to be able to afford top-of-the-line gene work.
Kill Switch in Asimov’s Science Fiction July 36
Research requirements
antedating 1985
Earliest cite
Edward Llewellyn, "The Lords of Creation"
Research History
Adam Buchbinder submitted a citation from Edward Llewellyn's "The Lords of Creation" (Analog, March 1985).Added to the OED in June 2008, with a first publication date of 1987; later updated to 1985.
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