The year is 2030. The place is Centerville, a typical city.
Clifton Pembroke is a young professional with a promising career
in the field of "disability advocacy." He helps people raise their
disability profile-a single index that encompasses every variety of
injustice and disadvantage that may befall an individual.
Raising one's disability profile can bring a host of benefits,
including subsidies and preferential treatment. But some people are
no longer satisfied with these benefits. They assert that their
very birth was an injustice, that a fundamental travesty has
occurred, that in fact they should have been a different
person.
They even know who that other person is, and they intend to
receive their just compensation-by obtaining the legal right to
seize the other's identity.
Clifton becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas that run to the
core of what it means to be human. In choosing sides, he must make
difficult, even dangerous decisions. In his search for answers, he
gropes in the darkness until he meets the people who are building
the workshop of the second self.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2006 |
First published: |
August 2006 |
Authors: |
Gary Wolf
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
200 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-40496-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
0-595-40496-0 |
Barcode: |
9780595404964 |
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