"Eugene" is a science-fiction short story by Australian writer Greg Egan, first published in Interzone #36 in June 1990.
[1][2] Angela and Bill, who have failed to conceive a child so far, intend to spend a large amount of money to artificially create a perfect child for themselves, which they plan to call Eugene.
At first the plan seems to fail, but then a simulation on the computers of the clinic of how Eugene might later be like initiates contact with Angela and Bill.
Angela and Bill then find out that the money they intended to spend on the creation of Eugene has been transferred to various organizations researching diseases or helping the poor.
[3] The short story was translated into Hungarian by Erno Nemes (1997), Romanian by Mihai-Dan Pavelescu, Italian (2003), Spanish (2006), French by Francis Lustman and Quarante-Deux (2006), Japanese by Makoto Yamagishi (2008), Chinese and Korean by Kim Sang-hoon.