concord point

[tatiana]

Since the 1950s, geneticists have been looking for cures, causes, for answers. They've made historical breakthroughs in medicine, in disease prevention, but they've ultimately all been working towards one goal: to discover how to make the "perfect" human beings.

Dr. Stephanie Mendel, great great granddaughter to the "father of genetics," Gregor Mendel, has made this breakthrough. However, rather than have credit stolen from her by her comrades, she disappeared to Washington and started a commune. Armed with 100 couples to participate in her studies, Stephanie spent the next year waiting for her subjects to be birthed.

After the birth of 100 genetically altered children, she recruited another 100 new parents of "normal" children to live in her designed town of Concord Point to participate in a 20 year long test to see how these genetically designed children handle the real world, how they interact with natural born children, and how they live differently than us. This was approximately 16 years ago.

Now, with 5 years to go on the project, these teenagers are showing extraordinary life skills. Some with super intelligence, some with sports skills like man has never seen, some with so much artistic talent that they make Van Gogh's paintings look like a 5 year old's doodles. They're mixed in with the "normals," who are desperately trying to figure out why they aren't as brilliant as the rest of them.

Stephanie Mendel designed Concord Point well. The nearest town is 200 miles away, and it's secluded in the middle of the woods on the coast of the Pacific. No one knows it exists, and there's no way for any of the citizens to leave until the trials are over... if they ever will be over.

[DIETER JENKINS]

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