Norman had never liked his brother. Trevor had always been a big, garrulous, outgoing guy into sports, drinking, and wild times. He wasn’t at all like the more restrained, intellectual and bookish Norman with his love of computers and technology. To make matters worse, Trevor was nor merely his big brother; he was his enormously bigger brother.

Sometimes it was hard to believe they sprang from the same father. In fact, sometimes it was hard to believe they were even the same species. Norman was five foot ten and weighed a hundred and sixty two pounds. While Trevor was a full eight inches taller and over a hundred pounds heavier.

There had never been any question as they were growing up, over who had come out on the winning side of the genetic game of chance, at least, not physically. But Norman had long comforted himself that he was the smarter. And while Trevor had joined the army as a mere private, to go crawling in the mud and get shot at, Norman had been getting his masters degree in computer engineering.