Mabry

Mabry sequences amino acids in the basement of a research center in the Canadian tundra. His job is to design a better person by manipulating amino acid sequences and tracing gene-trait causality paths. His research is not meant for implementation, but for documentation and computer simulation. Mabry often complains that the quality of gene combinations is subjective. Sometimes he says that he’s never met someone he considers better than anyone else, so he has no basis of reference. He sleeps in a barracks bunk surrounded by the other members of his project team. All male, they have no wives, no children, no sex in eight years. Every person the team has designed is a woman. Nothing exists in their world beyond work except a few polar bears and thirty something different names for snow.