| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
The Pet Thief; Tsokka tsokka tsokka; A Bibliography; In Gratitude |
| Summary |
This book is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world. When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective. Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, "cat people," who escaped with others to the depths of a rundown European city being leveled for reconstruction. They are members of a street gang led by an ominous leader called Swan. Oboy is unable to think or speak except in mimicry, but he is a physical savant, which serves Freda’s mission. Enraged at what has been done to her, Freda wants to “rescue” every pet she can. When Oboy returns with a human baby after his first solo outing, their world and the truths of their existence come unraveled |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Human experimentation in medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Science fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781573668392 |
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1573668397 |
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