The Perfection of Fish

<p><u><strong>2020 Maxy Awards Finalist – SciFi/Fantasy</strong></u></p><p>The contest between men and women escalates to a new battlefield — genetics. Legislators mandate a testosterone- lowering food supplement to reduce violence and make gun control unnecessary. The blowback assumes epic proportions. Nadia Holkam — a pawn in the battle — desperately seeks her true identity.</p><p>Diana Holkam discovers companies are using her twin sister as a template for the perfect subordinate female in an experiment aimed at turning all women into pets. With help from a one-eyed Muslim Bible salesman an African American woman promoting a testosterone-reducing food supplement and an Indian geneticist fleeing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency they fight against a misogynistic CEO a would-be prophet of male supremacy and the mob. Neither side realizes the AI system developing the genetic “cure” has a different plan for human evolution — a plan that has something to do with fish.</p>