In Soviet Union, genetic engineering does you.
Yona wondered why everyone kept steering him toward a military career, until one of his teachers noticed his aptitude for genetics. Now he's the personal student of Academician Voronsky, working in a secret genetic engineering facility in a closed town.
However, Yona keeps having to spend as much time babysitting the Academician's adopted son Kolya as actually doing genetics. When this extra assignment becomes a frustration, Yona learns just how quickly privileges can be retracted.
And then he starts learning just how deep the secrets of the Soviet human genetics program really goes.
A story from the Grissom timeline (Gus on the Moon universe).
Caution: Contains intense material that may be disturbing to some audiences. Reader caution advised