XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 31/01/26 09:46, Pluted Pup wrote:   
   > On 1/28/26 6:51 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company   
   >>> found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once   
   >>> enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the   
   >>> means to propagate a deadly epidemic.   
   >   
   > I like Didactic Fiction, too.  So what's the whole plotline, so we   
   > won't feel cheated by "plot twists" if we start to read it.   
      
   That comment wasn't intended to be posted to an SF newsgroup, so I   
   didn't take precautions against posting a spoiler. And the thread was   
   already about religious symbols encoded in junk DNA.   
      
   To find the context for my comment, you'll have to read the thread in   
   alt.usage.english.   
      
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