Brain Child

<b>From the rear flap of the William Morrow first edition:</b> Now, in <i>Brain Child</i>, Turner has created an intense novel of murder and science that sounds the great themes of human identity and the nature of intelligence. Set a few decades in the future, he tells the story of a man searching for his roots and, through layers of discovery, the story of a complex and astounding scientific experiment. David Chance has been raised in an orphanage and, now an adult, finds that he is the child of a man genetically altered before birth by a group of scientists experimenting in increasing human intelligence and creativity. But his father is dead. <p>He pursues the search for the true nature of his father and, through it, the true nature of the experiments and the survivors of the final disaster that ended them. Chance exposes his roots and find them entangled in horror, deceit, vengeance, and perverse scientific illumination. Peace and self-knowledge are achieved only at great risk and terrible cost.

Selected as a ''New York Times Notable Book of the Year''. Portions of Chapters 2, 4 and 5 appeared, in shorter form, in a short story, "On the Nursery Floor", in Strange Attractors

Year	Award	Category	Status
1992	Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award	Best Australian Long Fiction	Nominee/Finalist
1992	Locus Poll Award	Best SF Novel	Nominee/Finalist
1993	Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award	Best Australian Long Fiction	Nominee/Finalist