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Short Story Book Club: You Have Arrived At Your Destination

I read and reviewed Amos Towles’ thoughtful specfic short, You Have Arrived At Your Destination (That’s the Amazon page, but I think it’s free if you have Prime) for Short Story Book Club.

I was interested in reading the short story You Have Arrived At Your Destination after reading Amor Towles’s engrossing novels Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow. Of course, this speculative fiction short story You Have Arrived At Your Destination is quite different in tone, genre, almost everything, but you can still see Towles’s wonderful eye for detail in creating the story and the world.

This short story presents a very near, very realistic future in which prospective parents can choose not just the gender or hair color of their future child, but a lot of their personality attributes, too. A married couple, Sam and Annie, decide to consult with a genetic engineering firm as they plan to start a family. In some ways, Sam feels that giving their future son this genetic boost is no different than getting him into a competitive school.

Read the full review: You Have Arrived At Your Destination – Short Story Book Club

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