R3 isn't really a reindeer, and he's had a rough life, but he brings Christmas all the same.Damn right we're Christmas—a holiday all about the foolish belief in the impossible. Flying reindeer are perfect for impossible. Doubters said you couldn't make flying reindeer, and they were right: We're not really reindeer; we're more like a whole new animal on a reindeer chassis.
Read Read "R3", by Dennis Danvers.
And for a slightly different take on Reindeer physiology, see Robert Billing's Nature Futures short "Harnessing the brane-deer" (pdf).
Image: Image from the Bell Mobility animated reindeer commercial.
Tags:science fiction, Christmas, genetic engineering
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