"SF book on gene manipulation?" Topic

Someone asked me if I knew of a science fiction novel, written in the last ten years, which features gene manipulation. All they knew of the plot was that a woman decides to hide her family, presumably because of forced gene manipulation. And that's all I know. Does it ring any bells with anyone?

Some of Pournelle's "War World" anthologies featured stories about the genetically modified Sauron supermen. At least a few had a female protagonist.

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear has a woman and family in hiding because of a 'disease' that has something to do with ancient genes reactivating. Can't remember if there is any humans doing gene manipulation in it.

Egg Dancing by ?Liz someone had a woman ending up in a mental institution because of various plot things that were eventually revealed to be genetic experiments on her ovaries.

One of these, perhaps?

TMP link

CC

Written in the last ten years? There might be a couple, but SF stopped being about social issues long before that. It's been mostly gun porn for years.

A little further back would get you Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, with two sequels.

Further back than that finds two works by C.J. Cherryh (possibly three, in paperback): Cyteen (split in some editions) and the related Forty Thousand in Gehenna.

(re-reads the OP)

Ah, sorry. Don't recognize it.

One of the early Vorkosigan novels is about an aristocratic society based on gene manipulation. The title was "Cetaganda," the name of the empire. Unfortunately, it won an award in 1997 so I guess it's outside the not-at-all-arbitrary ten year time slot.

But the entire Cetagandan political world revolved around their genetic manipulations.

Andrew

Thanks, all. I have a suspicion that Darwin's Radio and/or its sequel Darwin's Children is the book in question.