more weirdness! child to be created with three parents! argh!

argh! this is even weirder than steak off agar jelly.

whats the "moral" difference between this and human cloning?

Once again life imitates art.

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9611/21/arnold/link.twins.jpg

oops

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9611/21/arnold/link.twins.jpg

Whoa. Genetic three-way. Hott!

Ah, I thought this was the coolest thing ever - because it involves MITOCHONDRIA and the mighty MITOCHONDRIA (it has to be said this way because that is how my granny always said it) are like these weird parasite things which live in your cells and have totally separate DNA yet YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THEM!!!

See also: A Wrinkle In Time. (Was that the novel where a boy's mitochondria were all dying cueing war of the gods and Cherabim and Seraphim fighting the forces of good and evil and spacetime warps and all that?)

a wrinkle in time! i am working on getting a copy of that again (ie idly checking out used ones on amazon) - turns out it's part of a series? and the time something?

Aw, yes! There were more books but I can't remember any of the names of them. What was the name of the author? Oh yes, Madeleine L'Engle.

http://www.madeleinelengle.com/books/wrinkleInTime.htm

Ack, that site does strange thing to my cursor. Oh dear.

The Wind In The Door was the other one.

(I get her mixed up with Ursala K LeGuin for some reason. I think because of the title of the book The Lathe Of Time being so similar. Or was it the Lathe of Heaven? Oh, no I'm very confused.)

there are four, the time quartet.

1. Time Quartet: A Swiftly Tilting Planet; A Wind in the Door; A Wrinkle in Time; Many Waters (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet)

i only had a wrinkle in time. remember trying to read it at about 5 and being baffled, trying again a year or two later and loving it...
shit, i can't remember a lot about it though. was this the one with the collywobbles? they were freaky.

I don't remember the collywobbles. I remember the Tesseract, and there was an angel of some kind - a cherumbim or a seraphim, can't remember which. The child was surprised because she expected it to be all cute, and instead it was terrifying and had millions of unblinking eyes and unfolding wings.

The bit I really loved was when they went microscopic and went inside the little brother's (Charles?) Mitochondria... there was a beast - that was smaller than a Mitochondria but I can't remember its name - that was helping them as well.

(I also loved that time was so slowed down/sped up that Charles' heart beat once ever seven years in Mitochondrial time!)

oh god. i need to reread this!

i think the collywobbles were sort of guardians, a kid was scared and an adult said it's all for your own good. i pictured them as sort of blancmangey daleks with rings like planets.

I want to re-read it too, now!

ok. i will see if i can pick it up cheap.