L'auteur Brian
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The Pipes of Pan :
What was the spark for this story?
B.S I was writing a set of “tales of the biotech revolution,” many of which assumed that if everyone were going to live for a very long time, raising children would have to become a relatively rare endeavour collectively undertaken by groups of adults considerably larger than the traditional two. This was one of the spinoff items in which I tried to envisage alternative scenarios—in this one, artificially extended parenthood...