SECOND RUNNER UP FOR THE DEL SOL PRIZE FOR FIRST NOVEL (And re-proofed after a helpful reviewer pointed out some errors)Nil Steivenson and Lucy Wu are not exactly mad scientists. They are, however, a pair of furious misanthropic bio-engineers. Nil has lost his family to horrifying legislation, coupled with the perverse misuse of technology he pioneered. Lucy, a genius by any standard, has had the future she was promised all her life abruptly crushed...