A new species, made to order... Just a few hundred genes separate humans from chimpanzees. Supposed you altered chimp DNA, creating a new species of worker, somewhere between simian and human? SimGen, a powerful new corporation, has done just that. Using their patented 'sim' genome, they have begun breeding sims by the hundreds, leasing them out to serve as cheap manual labor in factories and sweatshops. There are protests, of course, by somehow SimGen has managed to quash any attempts to ban or regulate the production of sims - as young lawyer Patrick Sullivan is about to discover. But SimGen has secrets beyond their patents and proprietary technology. Dreadful secrets they will go to any lengths to protect...
Author
Francis Paul Wilson is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. In 1981 he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller, The Keep, and helped define the field throughout the rest of the decade. In the 1990s he became a true genre hopper, moving from science fiction to horror to medical thrillers and branching into interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies. He, along with Matthew J. Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992-1996. http://us.macmillan.com/author/fpaulw...
