I only just came off reading Cyteen and Regenesis, and so right now I'm thoroughly primed to read ALL ABOUT consciousness transfer and programmatic immortality and vat-grown populations and government regulation of genetic possibilities--and even so, I was still blown away. The way you take those elements and interweave them with the thematics of Richard III is just masterful; it really is a play about the social relations that adhere to biological connections, about whether descendents are in some meaningful way self-identical with their forebears. And Catesby and Ratcliff are lovely here, too, products of their society but also of Richard's careful interventions, of genetic modifications and economic considerations and their own developing dignity.

This is an incredible re-imagining, and I can't thank you enough for writing it.