Darwin’s Children
Evolution is no longer just a theory – and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother – in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin’s RadioStella Nova is one of the ‘virus children’, a generation of genetically enhanced babies born a dozen years before to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus.In fact, the children represent the next great evolutionary leap and a new species of human, Homo sapiens novus, but this is officially denied. They’re gentle, charming and persuasive, possessed of remarkable traits. Nevertheless, they are locked up in special schools, quarantined from society, feared and reviled.‘Survival of the fittest’ takes on a new dimension as the children reach puberty. Stella is one of the first to find herself attracted to another ‘virus child’, but the authorities are watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve ‘humankind’ at any cost.
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Darwin’s
Children
Greg Bear
To my father,
Dale Franklin Bear
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE Spotsylvania County, Virginia
CHAPTER THREE Office of Special Reconnaissance LEESBURG, VIRGINIA
CHAPTER FIVE Spotsylvania, Virginia
CHAPTER SIX The Longworth House Office Building WASHINGTON, D.C.
CHAPTER SEVEN Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER ELEVEN Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Washington, D.C., Ohio
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Spotsylvania County
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Pennsylvania
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Pennsylvania
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Pennsylvania
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Pennsylvania
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FORTY The Poconos, Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR The Poconos, Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO Pennsylvania
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE Pennsylvania-Arizona
CHAPTER THREE Sable Mountain Emergency Action School ARIZONA
CHAPTER FOUR Pathogenics Center Viral Threat Assessment Division, Sandia Labs NEW MEXICO
CHAPTER SEVEN near Lubbock, Texas
CHAPTER EIGHT Washington, D.C.
CHAPTER ELEVEN Americol Research Headquarters BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE New Mexico
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Baltimore
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE New Mexico
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Baltimore-Washington
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE New Mexico
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE New Mexico
CHAPTER ONE Fort Detrick, Maryland
CHAPTER TWO Central California
CHAPTER THREE Lake Stannous, Northern California
CHAPTER FOUR Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
CHAPTER FIVE Lake Stannous, California
CHAPTER SIX Spent River, Oregon
EPILOGUE SHEVA2 + 1 LONE PINE, CALIFORNIA
“America’s a cruel country. There’s a whole lot of people would just as soon stomp you like an ant. Listen to talk radio. Plenty of dummies, damned few ventriloquists.”
“There’s a wolf snarl behind the picnics and Boy Scout badges.”
“They want to kill our kids. Lord help us all.”
—Anonymous Postings, ALT.NEWCHILD.FAM
“Citing ‘severe threats to national security,’ Emergency Action this week has requested of the U.S. Justice Department the authority to hack and shut down SHEVA parent Web sites and even e-journals and newspapers guilty of spreading inaccurate information—‘lies’—against EMAC and the U.S. government. Some parent advocacy groups complain this is already the norm. Mid-level Justice Department officials have passed the request along to the office of the attorney general for further legal review, according to sources who wish to remain anonymous.
“Some legal experts say that even legitimate newspaper sites could be hacked or shut down without warning should approval be granted, and the granting of such approval is likely in itself to be kept secret.”
—Seattle Times-PI Online
“God had nothing to do with making these children. I don’t care what you think about creationism or evolution, we’re on our own now.”
—Owen Withey, Creation Science News
