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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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02.01.03
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Five hundred years from life is extremely comfortable, primarily due to 'pet martian rocks' which enable instant telepathic communication and companionship for people. These are pieces of 'the Oneness' the martian overmind, an intelligence that fled into the strata and became immortal once their biological bodies started dying in a mass extinction millions of years before.
In the future people can determine exactly how they are going to look. In fact, the majority of mankind is created from five different 'caches' or factories, which produce them. The only people who reproduce the old way are in third world countries. In the United States all these people are banned to Alabama, with all the other 'primitives'. Robert Clayborn is a designer of bestselling genetic types-but when some of the individuals he helped create start reverting into apelike creatures, including his own son, he's sued by everyone and must take his life on the run. In the meantime, the Oneness, decides that he's to become their Abraham Lincoln and free the pet rock slaves. It's a lot for him to handle, to say the least.
This book is fun and gets better the more you read. Written by Hayford Peirce.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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