What would happen if babies started being born with incredible abilities? What would happen if certain babies could read minds or travel through time or turn invisible?What would do if your baby could do such things? How would having to deal with a child like this impact your life? What decisions would you have to consider?Unnatural Selection, the new fiction novel by D. R. Bickham examines this possibility through the eyes of two families faced with such a dilemma. Set in the year 1974, Unnatural Selection focuses on the impact these special children have on the people around them in their very first year of life.Imagine, for a moment, the power of a nuclear weapon. Think for a moment about the raw, destructive potential.Now, imagine that potential in the hands of a child. Imagine it being literally in the hands of an infant, a young baby who barely has control over basic motor functions...Imagine a person as ordinary as you or me having to deal with a power like that, not out of choice or design, but rather because their child was born with it.Would you be able to handle it?That is the dilemma faced by Danny and Gina Chambers. They were the perfect couple, with the perfect love story; Danny returned home from the war in Vietnam and immediately married his long-time sweetheart. Not long afterwards, Gina was blessed with the miracle of pregnancy and the bringing of a new life into the world. The young couple was understandably excited by this new chapter in their lives...Until their son was born surrounded by a strange glow...
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