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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Praising Fictional Bestiality in the Newspapers » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Praising Fictional Bestiality in the Newspapers » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: "It is a sign of the times. A novel is out with apparent transhumanist tendencies, in which a chimp is engineered to exhibit human characteristics. And it has graphic scenes of human/chimpanzee sex.

First, based on the SF Chronicle book review, it would appear that the The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore comes from a radical animal rights perspective From the review:

Imagine, for a moment, a future in which animals are accorded the same rights as humans, a society in which cattle ranchers, research scientists and pet owners are regarded with an antipathy we now reserve for eugenicists and slave traders. In the graduate literature seminars of this future, Benjamin Hale’s debut novel, “The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore,” would be hailed as a brave and visionary work of genius."

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