Fibonacci's Child - Plot Summary (Part I)
Adopted twins, Karen and Elizabeth Kauffman, are happy with life despite being dumped by their birth mother in favour of Paris until the day they have a horrific argument with dire consequences when Elizabeth sleeps with Karen's partner, George.
Following Elizabeth's death in World Trade Centre, 15 years later Dr Karen Kaufmann uses her company's facilities to recreate her deceased twin. Karen believes her and Elizabeth are natural clones. They originated from the same egg, therefore she can recreate her sister using her own cells. Aware that she is a twin she uses an experimental drug ‘Aricole’ to prevent her egg dividing.
Karen successfully fertilises herself and gives birth to a little girl, Elizabeth.
Dr Kaufmann fleas to Chicago. Resettled, her six year-old clone in tow, she's reunited with her college sweetheart, George Planter. The two become engaged and make plans to settle down. One night the child (Elizabeth) wakes, crying, claiming she's wet the bed. George removes her wet nightclothes and brings her to bed with him and her mother. In the morning Karen rushes off late for work, leaving her child and lover asleep in bed. A car-pool mother arrives to collect the child sees the George (a negro) in bed with the child, and calls the police.
George allegedly commits suicide whilst in police custody. He dies labelled child molester. Karen's persecuted by doubts as to what really happened. The child is taken into the care of the state and is fostered into an unsavoury environment run by the evil, unscrupulous Norman & Thelma Morrison.
As a teenager Elizabeth II (Reggie) falls pregnant, despite her and Norman Morrison protesting their innocence, Thelma's convinced of foul play. She arranges an illegal adoption. Global Adoptions provide the children with Polish paperwork, they are subsequently sold to American Families. Reggie gives birth to perfect Caucasian twin girls.
The deceased original Elizabeth is experiencing increasing feelings of well being and decides she's a ghost, but cannot work out why she's hanging around.
Reggie runs away to the city, where she meets Anton, a young African-American. The relationship develops rapidly. Immediately she falls pregnant. She gives birth to twins, white girls. Anton throws her out for her alleged infidelity. Reggie leaves the children (Jessica & Joanna) and returns to the Morrisons. A year later she gives birth to another pair of perfect girls. After a fight with Thelma, Reggie suffers brain damage. Mrs Morrison exploits Reggie, keeping her imprisoned and sedated whilst charging men to have sex with her, Reggie conceives regularly. The Morrisons believe Reggie is a god-sent cash-cow, an over fertile woman, guaranteed to produce two offspring regularly. The babies are being shipped worldwide.
Old and riddled with cancer (and guilt), the now wealthy Mr Morrison wants to make peace with his maker. Ubeknown to his domineering wife, he substitutes Elizabeth's sedatives. Elizabeth becomes aware of her environment, her life plays through her mind. From George's death, (which she now understands her part in,) to the present. She sets fire to the house and occupants. All lives are lost, including her own.
Following Elizabeth's death in World Trade Centre, 15 years later Dr Karen Kaufmann uses her company's facilities to recreate her deceased twin. Karen believes her and Elizabeth are natural clones. They originated from the same egg, therefore she can recreate her sister using her own cells. Aware that she is a twin she uses an experimental drug ‘Aricole’ to prevent her egg dividing.
Karen successfully fertilises herself and gives birth to a little girl, Elizabeth.
Dr Kaufmann fleas to Chicago. Resettled, her six year-old clone in tow, she's reunited with her college sweetheart, George Planter. The two become engaged and make plans to settle down. One night the child (Elizabeth) wakes, crying, claiming she's wet the bed. George removes her wet nightclothes and brings her to bed with him and her mother. In the morning Karen rushes off late for work, leaving her child and lover asleep in bed. A car-pool mother arrives to collect the child sees the George (a negro) in bed with the child, and calls the police.
George allegedly commits suicide whilst in police custody. He dies labelled child molester. Karen's persecuted by doubts as to what really happened. The child is taken into the care of the state and is fostered into an unsavoury environment run by the evil, unscrupulous Norman & Thelma Morrison.
As a teenager Elizabeth II (Reggie) falls pregnant, despite her and Norman Morrison protesting their innocence, Thelma's convinced of foul play. She arranges an illegal adoption. Global Adoptions provide the children with Polish paperwork, they are subsequently sold to American Families. Reggie gives birth to perfect Caucasian twin girls.
The deceased original Elizabeth is experiencing increasing feelings of well being and decides she's a ghost, but cannot work out why she's hanging around.
Reggie runs away to the city, where she meets Anton, a young African-American. The relationship develops rapidly. Immediately she falls pregnant. She gives birth to twins, white girls. Anton throws her out for her alleged infidelity. Reggie leaves the children (Jessica & Joanna) and returns to the Morrisons. A year later she gives birth to another pair of perfect girls. After a fight with Thelma, Reggie suffers brain damage. Mrs Morrison exploits Reggie, keeping her imprisoned and sedated whilst charging men to have sex with her, Reggie conceives regularly. The Morrisons believe Reggie is a god-sent cash-cow, an over fertile woman, guaranteed to produce two offspring regularly. The babies are being shipped worldwide.
Old and riddled with cancer (and guilt), the now wealthy Mr Morrison wants to make peace with his maker. Ubeknown to his domineering wife, he substitutes Elizabeth's sedatives. Elizabeth becomes aware of her environment, her life plays through her mind. From George's death, (which she now understands her part in,) to the present. She sets fire to the house and occupants. All lives are lost, including her own.
Fibonacci's Child - Plot Summary (Part II)
Anton Morgan's adopted daughters Joanna and Jessica have their lives turned into turmoil. Aged 14, Jessica's raped, murdered, and the body burned. During the autopsy several anomalies are discovered. Joanna undergoes extensive tests. Doctors conclude she has both male and female organs. Her condition is not that unusual, and despite her having inactive male genitalia, she's a healthy girl.
A year later, Joanna falls pregnant. She denies being sexually active. The pregnancy is terminated. When Joanna immediately falls pregnant again, she is taken to specialists where it is discovered Joanna is an active hermaphrodite. If left to her own devices she will self-fertilise every 12-15 months. A hysterectomy appears to be the only solution.
Elizabeth begins to suspect she's not dead. And she's supposed to accomplish something.
During adulthood Joanna becomes haunted by her dead twin, seeing Jessica everywhere. From the bus she sees her sister pushing twins in a push-chair, two blocks later she sees her sister again with the push-chair. Joanna finds the girl she believes to be her sister. During an in-depth conversation, she hears a familiar tale of twins of immaculate conception. Research leads her to the small town where the Morrisons lived. She learns of the 30 to 40 'girl twins' Elizabeth popped out. More research leads her to an aged Dr Kauffman.
Karen explains to Joanna that she's an Elizabeth, they're all Elizabeths, clones, self-replicating in pairs They all need to be found and destroyed. Any one of the now thousands of clones could restart the process. She also tells Joanna of the mystery surrounding her great love George. Joanna reveals, pouring water in the bed to facilitate getting in bed with mummy and daddy was a trick she played herself, she thought all kids did it.
'Elizabeths' are systematically tracked down. Medication is created to reverse the condition. Eventually, the world witnesses the birth of a single boy from a naturally fertilised 'Elizabeth' mother. Nobody knows, this boy, and all subsequent boys in the line carry a new gene. They will father more 'Elizabeths'. The self-replicating hermaphrodites will return, only now, they won't all look identical.
The undead Elizabeth has been watching all these years. She realises that drug, Aricole, was not responsible for the self-replicating clones. All the clones are the all the image of Elizabeth's mother, Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus. Paris was not the city, it was the person.
Elizabeth is the goddess Androgenes, events to date have been no accident. She is here to repopulate the planet with the third species. It was her error to use the body of a twin. Man's interference using science compounds Androgenes error, causing the third species to become dominant. Eventually man and woman become will become extinct. According to The prophecy of Aristophanes; In the beginning we all had four arms and four legs, and were happy. People's happiness had angered the gods, Zeus in particular. Zeus split us apart into separate creatures, man and woman. Ten thousand years later, Androgenes returned to undo her grandfather's evil.
Job done, Androgenes returns to Mount Olympus To her horror, she discovers she conceived when she slept with George, and she will give birth to the only human boy. Not wanting his great grandson to live his life a lonely freak, Zeus has one real, tried and tested option - To split all the hermaphrodites apart.
A year later, Joanna falls pregnant. She denies being sexually active. The pregnancy is terminated. When Joanna immediately falls pregnant again, she is taken to specialists where it is discovered Joanna is an active hermaphrodite. If left to her own devices she will self-fertilise every 12-15 months. A hysterectomy appears to be the only solution.
Elizabeth begins to suspect she's not dead. And she's supposed to accomplish something.
During adulthood Joanna becomes haunted by her dead twin, seeing Jessica everywhere. From the bus she sees her sister pushing twins in a push-chair, two blocks later she sees her sister again with the push-chair. Joanna finds the girl she believes to be her sister. During an in-depth conversation, she hears a familiar tale of twins of immaculate conception. Research leads her to the small town where the Morrisons lived. She learns of the 30 to 40 'girl twins' Elizabeth popped out. More research leads her to an aged Dr Kauffman.
Karen explains to Joanna that she's an Elizabeth, they're all Elizabeths, clones, self-replicating in pairs They all need to be found and destroyed. Any one of the now thousands of clones could restart the process. She also tells Joanna of the mystery surrounding her great love George. Joanna reveals, pouring water in the bed to facilitate getting in bed with mummy and daddy was a trick she played herself, she thought all kids did it.
'Elizabeths' are systematically tracked down. Medication is created to reverse the condition. Eventually, the world witnesses the birth of a single boy from a naturally fertilised 'Elizabeth' mother. Nobody knows, this boy, and all subsequent boys in the line carry a new gene. They will father more 'Elizabeths'. The self-replicating hermaphrodites will return, only now, they won't all look identical.
The undead Elizabeth has been watching all these years. She realises that drug, Aricole, was not responsible for the self-replicating clones. All the clones are the all the image of Elizabeth's mother, Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus. Paris was not the city, it was the person.
Elizabeth is the goddess Androgenes, events to date have been no accident. She is here to repopulate the planet with the third species. It was her error to use the body of a twin. Man's interference using science compounds Androgenes error, causing the third species to become dominant. Eventually man and woman become will become extinct. According to The prophecy of Aristophanes; In the beginning we all had four arms and four legs, and were happy. People's happiness had angered the gods, Zeus in particular. Zeus split us apart into separate creatures, man and woman. Ten thousand years later, Androgenes returned to undo her grandfather's evil.
Job done, Androgenes returns to Mount Olympus To her horror, she discovers she conceived when she slept with George, and she will give birth to the only human boy. Not wanting his great grandson to live his life a lonely freak, Zeus has one real, tried and tested option - To split all the hermaphrodites apart.
