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L.A. 2037. The BION stock index is riding high. Medicines, microbes, designer babies... Like silicon in the 1990's, DNA is wealth, knowledge, power. The worth of a person, increasingly synonymous with class and race, can be read off the barcode built into any one of his cells. But when a genetic experiment gives an inner-city African-American kid the most advanced intellect in human history, the biotech aristocracy faces an enemy whose insight and ambition could challenge the order they have so painstakingly constructed.