The chimeras are back.
Human-animal hybrids shuffling and grunting their way through the blasted ruins of Old Europe, in search of the few surviving Makers. When a man is dragged from the rubble, a dull and ancient vengeance unpuzzles the chimera’s single eye as its claws shred the hated Maker.
Oh wait. No. Sorry.
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Chimera.
Isn’t that a great word?
That’s a word to send shivers up and down your spine.
Chimera.
Now, I don’t know what primeval vestige inside me, buried deep in the amygdala, recoils in fear at such words but I know that, in dealing with these matters, we come into close contact with the Ancient. The very dark. [...]

What do you make of this embryo thing in the High Court? Hmm?
What the hell do you make of it?
Isn’t that the strangest thing you ever heard?
The facts seem to be as follows: a husband and wife wanted to have a child, and went for in-vitro fertilisation. They duly produced a child. After the procedure, [...]