Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man Author:John Gribbin Set against a backdrop of increasing global disruption precipitated by the greenhouse effect, this story tells how a Nobel Prize-winning scientist secretly raises an ape-like creature. The astonishing secret of the creature's genetic parentage cannot remain a secret for ever. In a world staggering beneath a deluge of war, famine,... more » pollution, and disastrous climatic changes, it can be worth your life to tell the truth as you see it.
Richard Lee learned that the hard way. An idealistic biologist whose work in genetics has already led to cures for many lethal diseases, he thought nothing of venturing to say, in a TV interview, that humans and chimpanzees might be sibling species, more closely related than anyone else has suspected.
The nearly immediate collapse of his career - and murder of his future wife - drove home that the world of civilized scientific debate was a thing of the past.
Now as the planet staggers toward disaster, Richard is a recluse; living in seclusion with a former drug addict and a baby that isn't quite human. Who will inherit the earth? Richard Lee knows. And he isn't telling.« less