In the year 2020 global warming has made the world a warmer, wetter place, but technological developments have run on apace. On of the hottest such areas is medicine, where organ transplants and gene therapy have introduced infinite new vistas to what was once the staid old human condition.

One of the most remarkable inhabitans of this new age is Crygender, a surgical hermaphrodite so deftly constructed that it is impossible to determine his/her original sex...