Little Sci-fi book before 2000 about finding six(or so) babies genetically modified to be very intelligent scattered around the world

[Liliola]

My uncle read this book long time ago in French and is trying to find it again.
He says it's about six children with modified genes scattered around the world( one in Japan). Those who made them are are trying to find them to know what they have become.
Thlse kids are are supposed to be very smart.

[beichst]

@Liliola. Welcome to Goodreads.

To help in finding your uncle's book it would help if you and your uncle could answer the following please:

1. What is 'a long time ago' 5 years? 10? Longer?
2. Was the book originally in French or possibly a translation? If a translatino, does your uncle happen to remember if it might have been English? Other?
3. Hard back/paperback?
4. What did the cover look like?
5. Were the children created by a government agency? Private company? Other?
6. Were the children ever found? if so, how old were they and what happened?
7. Did the children have any powers/talents other than simply intelligence?

Thanks.

[Liliola]

Brad wrote: "@Liliola. Welcome to Goodreads.

To help in finding your uncle's book it would help if you and your uncle could answer the following please:

1. What is 'a long time ago' 5 years? 10? Longer?
2. ..."

Thank you for helping.
1) I says he read it between 1995 and 2000
2-5) He does not remember
6) Yes the babies were found and they were children when found. He does remember one of them being found in Japan
7) He does not remember
Sorry it was really a long time ago and he lost the book before having the chance to finish it. And sorry for my english(french speaker ;)

[beichst]

Thanks for the additional info @Liliola. No need to apologize for your English. I am sure it is much better than my French :-)

Hopefully this can guide someone to finding the book for you adn your uncle.

[Liliola]

Yeah hopefully :-)

[SBC]

This is not an exact match for the above but I'll mention it anyway as it involves six people who are 'the next step in human evolution' and is likely to have been translated into French. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon.

[Liliola]

Thank you. It's not the one that I'm searching for but it seems interesting. Might read it :-)

[SBC]

Hi Liliola, I just came across a book that reminded me of your thread - Children of the atom - could this be your uncle's book? "Hidden throughout a future America of 1972 are a group of incredibly gifted children. All roughly the same age, all preternaturally intelligent, and all hiding their abilities from a world they know will not understand them. They are Wilmar Shiras Children of the Atom, the results of an unintended experiment in genetic mutation. Born to workers caught in an explosion at an atomic weapons facility, these remarkable youths were orphaned just a few months after birth when their parents succumbed to delayed effects from the blast. Now they are in their early teens, scattered across the country, each unaware of the others existence."

[SBC]

There does appear to be a French translation - https://www.amazon.fr/Children-Atom-W...

[Ky]

Another possibility is one of the books from the Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card. The first one, Ender's Shadow, was published 1999, the second one, Shadow of the Hegemon, in 2000. Bean, and some other children, are genetically modified to be very very intelligent. I'm not sure that it was exactly six children, though, and none of the summaries mentioned one being in Japan. But the French translations are a bit late, being in 2001 and 2002 respectively, so it's somewhat iffy.