In a future America, millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of intellectually superior, genetically modified humans, who in turn are fleeing from the near-superhuman Sleepless. The Sleepless have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances. Most of the world is on the verge of collapse, overburdened by a population of jobless drones and racked by the results of irresponsible genetic research and nanotechnology. Will the world be saved? And for whom?
