Jupiters Daughter
by By Hyman, Tom
Category: Fiction , General

With the explosive shock of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and Stephen King's Carrie, Jupiter's Daughter introduces an unforgettable young heroine, the first human whose entire genetic character is programmed before birth. The result of a unique combination of scientific ambition and financial greed, this super baby is born into a world not quite ready for her.When venture capitalist Dalton Stewart meets up with Nobel Prize-winning Harold Goth and his controversial experiments with human genes, a risky plan is born: to develop and exploit a computer program that will create a markedly superior child. Dalton's own wife, Anne, is chosen - without her knowledge - to be the mother of the first genetically engineered improvement of the human species.The night Genevieve Stewart is born - at midnight, on January 1, 2000 - her creator dies and his laboratory is destroyed. And the world's most dangerous human experiment begins.Anne is both enchanted and frightened by her daughter's precocity. Genny's health is perfect, her intelligence and physical strength way above average, and her senses supernaturally keen. And as she matures, she begins to demonstrate mysterious mental and physical powers.This extraordinary child - and the program that created her - become the focus of a deadly international competition involving a sadistic German baroness and the governments of the United States and Japan. How Genny and her mother ultimately outwit and defeat those who conspire to exploit the child forms the story's central narrative and its stunning conclusion.The all-too-possible secret of Genny's genetic programming takes us to the dark heart of the controversial science of genetics and raises profoundly disturbing ethical questions.