Amor Towles's "You Have Arrived at Your Destination" is a novelette of the near future, published in 2019 as part of Forward, the six-story collection of speculative fiction curated by Blake Crouch for Amazon Original Stories. It is the fourth story in that collection, and at roughly fifty pages it is designed to be read or heard in a single sitting.
Sam travels to Vitek, a company whose fertility technology promises prospective parents the ability to bring some traits in a child forward and push others back. He is shown projections of the different lives the child he and his wife might have could go on to lead. The premise is presented in the flat, reasonable register of a service being sold, and the effect is unsettling rather than futuristic: what begins as a consultation about a child who does not yet exist becomes an interrogation of the choices Sam has already made, and of whether a life can be aimed at all.
The story is the collection's most direct engagement with nature versus nurture, and with the ethics of choosing a person before they arrive. Kirkus called it "a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future." Towles works in a quieter, more interior mode here than in his novels, and the science-fictional apparatus stays deliberately in the background of what is finally a story about self-determination, marriage, and retrospect. The audiobook edition is narrated by David Harbour.