Three Novellas in the Wine of the Gods Universe High school student Chris Dunmeyer though he was smart, athletic and good looking. The tests that showed that he was genetically engineered came as a shock. Bad enough he wasn't allowed to compete in sports, was shunned as a techno monster. But now the majority wants "his kind" gone. And with the new parallel world technology, it looks like there's a place to send them. Exiled from Earth, the genetically engineered colonists and the escaped "gods" find their parallel Earth a challenge, a paradise, and an opportunity to explore the abilities their genetic engineering has blessed, or cursed, them with. Includes two shorter works in the same world.

First book of the Wine of the Gods Wolfgang was a nice kid--until they decided he wasn't even human. Genetic engineering. First they cured the genetic diseases. Then they selected for the best natural traits. Then they made completely artificial genes. As the test children reached puberty, abilities that had always been lost in the random background noise were suddenly obvious. Telepathy, telekinesis. At first their creators sought to strengthen these traits. Then they began to fear them. They called them gods, and made them slaves. Wolfgang Oldham was sixteen when the company laid claim to him. He escaped, and stayed free for three years. When he was arrested, identified and returned to the company, they trained him to be useful. They didn't realize that they were training him to be dangerous **

Third Book in the Wine of the Gods series. They were the last magic users in the world. Seventeen witches and eight badly inbred mages. Nine wizards, eight of them transformed into large black goats. Perhaps the gods should not have drunk so much while considering how to remedy the situation.