ABSTRACT
Fears about genetic engineering as something that will tamper with the continuation and future of the human population are a staple of much science fiction literature, film and television. Many such stories draw on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein narrative. Chapter 7 examines the meaning of that text’s drive to prevent a ‘race of devils’ that might compete with and destroy the human population, as well as some more recent texts that look to how the technological development of the human body draws attention to important public questions about the composition of the human population and who might belong to it.
