Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts

[halfeye]

Without getting in to whether or not souls are a real thing, the question of whether it is right to create moral beings out of animals has been a topic of science fiction since at least Sundiver (the first Uplift novel). Asking if things are worth doing (regardless of whether they can be done) is a core conceit of science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Is..._Doctor_Moreau

1896

H.G, Wells was firat to a lot of things. Verne was sometimes earlier, but in my view never better (bad translators perhaps).