Chapters 2 and 3 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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Cackogenesus Is a Big Deal Word, Right?
Cackogenesus is an inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile, especially as the result of reduced breeding stock. In using this term, which is established vocabulary in the setting, it's unclear if a cackogen is a extrasolar human or an extraterrestrial. It could be both. And that's something that's very important, just like we learn in fifth head of Cerberus that there may not just be one aboriginal out there.
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