Arwen Elys Dayton is a speculative-fiction author and screenwriter whose work joins intensive research to questions about identity, technology, power, and the limits of human transformation. Her books include Resurrection, the Seeker sequence, and Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful, a novel in six linked stories that follows biomedical change into an increasingly altered future.
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1 edition: Print · 2018
"Six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of human"--
Print · 2018 · English
Arwen Elys Dayton began writing professionally as a teenager on educational programs produced for PBS. She later moved into screenplays and speculative fiction, publishing Resurrection before developing the Seeker sequence and Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful.
Dayton describes character as the starting point of a book and research as the material from which its world develops. Her investigations have taken her inside the Great Pyramid, through Hong Kong's transit system, and to castles in Scotland. She tends to spend a long period thinking and researching before drafting in concentrated bursts.
In Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful, six linked stories move progressively farther into a future shaped by gene editing, replacement organs, and increasingly unstable definitions of the human. Dayton has said that the scientific research supplies the context, while the center of the book remains the intimate lives of people facing the promises and costs of technological change.