Re: YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"

On 14/03/2024 18:52, Lynn McGuire wrote:

YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"
 https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1bcw0l7/scifi_books_humans_with_animal_genesmodifications/
 "I read a book maybe 10 years or more ago, set in a future where humanity had played with gene splicing/gene therapy to the point where it was entirely common to see people with animal attributes. There was a whole community of peoples who had Cat/Lion genes who had some feline features and some of their agility, people with snake genes that had some scaled patterns on their skin and had sensuous, smooth movements, and so on. I’ve been trying to find this book for YEARS, but I have no idea what it was called and can’t really remember the plot except that there was a conflict between “normal” humans and those who had their genes modified. Any help, suggestions, or even recommendations about similar books?"

I don't have an answer and I'm hesitating
to create a reddit account, I see it as
something that happens to other people.
But I'd ask whether this is a "young adult"
reader book (and we could debate which
stories since Dr. Moreau quality), and
also whether this is about being born
with animal traits, or about getting a
treatment as a teenager or an adult.
It's extremely unlikely to be
Ben Aaronovitch's _Moon Over Soho_ (2011),
in which, happily as a minor theme,
animal-hybrid people have been devised
by an evil sex magician.  One appears
as the magician's henchman.