Was the continent of Equatoria based on Australia?
The geography seemed similar to me. Not explicitly, though I can see the similarity, especially as regards the climate. Even though the Martians developed the process for becoming a Fourth, they came to reject in vitro genetic engineering of a fetus. Are manipulating the genes of an adult and those a developing fetus two separate moral issues, or just different degrees of the same question? If nothing else, there’s the issue of consent. An adult knows what he or she is getting into, or at least can calculate the cost/risk ratio. A fetus (or for that matter a child) doesn’t have that option. Was Turk becoming intrigued by Isaac and was that why he chose to stay with the group? Turk saw himself as someone who deals with a problem by running away from it. His commitment to the group was a groping attempt to change that perspective. Why was Turk accepted to be remembered when he wasn’t even a Fourth? In part, because the motives of the Hypotheticals (as manifested in Isaac, in this case) r
