For over a hundred and fifty years, the rarest and most valuable substance in the solar system has been mined from the only location where it exists in significant quantity: Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. For all of this time, the remote mining outpost has been serviced by clone slaves who are drugged into mindlessness, and all of it has been monitored, controlled, and administered by the artificial intelligence known as Prinox.
But what happens when a failed rescue mission causes a small band of escaped clones to begin questioning their lives, their society, and their very existence? Hunted by deadly killing machines, confused and scared, these renegade slaves are about to find out—for better or worse—just what it means to be human.
Inspired by such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lord of the Flies, THX-1138, Brave New World, Logan’s Run, and The Black Hole, Spindown will appeal to all fans of “hard sci-fi” writers such as Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Gibson, and Heinlein
A richly told, diagnosably insane, meandering yet captivating journey through everything good and bad about sex, drugs, and China – plus a wildly improbable tale about saving the world. In short, not to be missed.
Could a dark agenda be woven into the architecture of China’s most sacred ancient temple? An agenda that only Julian Mancer is seeing? Or is Julian off his meds again? If the structure were in fact a doomsday device awaiting an astronomical tripwire—could Julian stop it?
Julian is determined to discover the answer, as soon as he concludes a far more pressing matter involving a sixteen-year-old girl with a most intriguing mutation.
Author lived in China during SARS epidemic, now makes his home in Mexico
Intended for an adult audience, contains mature themes
