Gaia's Revolution (The Icaria Trilogy, #1)

Twin brothers—a brilliant scientist and a gifted engineer—escape the growing racial violence of Berlin, to ‘peaceful’ Canada in a rivalry to control the evolution of the human race. Each plans to create a new humanity: one to control through gene manipulation and behaviour engineering; the other to empower through transhumanist AI. The warring brothers set off a violent revolution that destroys the Canadian technocratic government and whose weapons ultimately risk the survival of humanity. Deep ecologist Monica Schlange plays the twin brothers like chess pieces in her own gambit to ‘rule the world.’ Three children, caught in the spider web of intrigue and violence, will ultimately determine the direction of humanity by introducing the first veemelds (people who can communicate with machines), a new environmental disease (Darwin), and a new set of rules neither brother envisioned.