Blue Light: A Novel
Walter Mosley
In the Bay area in the mid-1960's, several people are struck by a cosmic
blue light that "quickens" their DNA, causing them instantaneously to
evolve far beyond the present state of the human race. They become the
full actualization of humankind, with strengths, understandings, and
communication abilities that exceed our imagining. Blue Light is the story
of this quickening, and the conflict between these precursors of a new
race of humans and the old breed they seem to supplant.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books