Dr. Wyatt leaned forward. "We're living in the most exciting period of human history. Incredible control, incredible power over our own destiny, is almost within our grasp. God created man?" His chin jerked up. "So what, Eli? We are going to be able to do that too. And-eventually-we'll do a better job at it.
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Eli has just graduated from high school and lucked into a job at Wyatt Transgenics-offered to him by Dr. Quincy Wyatt. The salary is substantial, the work is interesting, and the founder, a legendary molecular biologist, is paying a strange amount of attention to him. Why?