The one known as “The Sponsor” has absorbed the injection of enhanced DNA and has selected the woman who will play Eve to his Adam and initiate the repopulation of the planet with their Uber-offspring. What could go wrong? After all, isn’t genetics a science?

Ian Watson’s Converts will tell you why London’s Times Literary Supplement compared Watson to H. G. Wells and described him as “a phenomenon, a National Resource to be conserved.” And if you like Converts, check out another wonderful E-Reads titles by Watson, The Fire Worm.

- Richard Curtis