Bud Sparhawk
John C. "Bud" Sparhawk (born 1937) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for the strong scientific basis for his work, and also his humorous science fiction, in particular his Sam Boone series of short fiction.
A novella.
What if genetic engineering were simple enough that an intelligent student could build her own laboratory? And what if such were highly illegal in a repressive, fundamentalist United States of the near future? Beryl seeks an answer in this novella originally published in Absolute Magnitude.