So my scenario is I have two characters who grew up presuming they were half-siblings (brother and sister), but for various reasons that relationship comes into doubt later. The male character was treated badly as a child by his dad and stepmother and so has no contact with them. How could he and his not!sister prove that they're not related ( Read more... )

Setting is the real world (Zurich, not that it matters), today-ish ( Read more... )

I am writing a fantasy/dystopian story where the end of the current way of living/governmental structure came about due to the effects of a widely used narcotic. Set a few hundred years in the future, north america. The effects of the narcotic are fantasy based, but I was wondering if there is any factual basis for the way the effects are passed to ( Read more... )

Terms searched: handedness, handedness clones, dominant hands monozygotic twins, twins left-handed right-handed, rat clones handedness

The source material I'm working with has two characters, whom I'll call A and B. B is a clone of A, but whereas A is right-handed, B is left-handed. The source material mostly uses this as visual shorthand to show ( Read more... )

So there's this weird idea for a sci-fi tale that I've been playing with for a while.  The story, set in a relatively modern time, concerns a young man who is a human/feline hybrid (not really like an anthromorph or "furry;" more like a "catgirl" you might see in an anime except male), who became this way through a genetic experiment of some kind ( Read more... )

My story's set around 2080, about 60 years after scientists discovered the gay gene and 50 years after they worked out how to turn it on (and off). In an effort to start shrinking the human population, the world's governments have signed laws that mean families can only have more than one child if they switch on the gay gene in that second child. ( Read more... )

Setting: Fantasy world that's roughly equivalent to the later part of the Napoleonic Era.

I've got a group of villains who use magic to alter humans and animals to create things like angels, centaurs,  beast people, griffons, and such. All their experiments die fairly quickly because the magic is able to facilitate the change, but is unable to ( Read more... )

My characters are scientists that I'm trying to bring together over a shared project. So, I'm looking for a problem a well-funded expert in genetics (specifically genetic mutation) might need help with in his research from an engineer or a physicist. This is a "superhero-type genetic mutations" universe, so it's okay if the research this problem ( Read more... )

I tried google and wikipedia, but only found things about how intermarriage was somewhat common between Indians and white British at the time ( Read more... )

Time: Now-ish ( Read more... )