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Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Mockingbird Paperback - 1999

by Tevis, Walter

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  • Title Mockingbird
  • Author Tevis, Walter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Del Rey ed
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 275
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Del Rey Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-10-12
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002237093
  • ISBN 9780345431622 / 0345431626
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.15 x 0.65 in (20.35 x 13.08 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, End of the world
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99090091
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

In a future world where mankind is dying, humans wander through life in a drugged electronic bliss. Quick sex is the norm, and some people would rather commit suicide than live in hopelessness. But two people find themselves drawn to each other in an orchestrated coupling by an android that can never die, but who has no desire to continue living.

Media reviews

"A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Superman, and Star Wars."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Set in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population, this novel could be considered an unofficial sequel to Fahrenheit 451, for its central event and symbol is the rediscovery of reading."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Because of its affirmation of such persistent human values as curiosity, courage, and compassion, along with its undeniable narrative power, Mockingbird will become one of those books that coming generations will periodically rediscover with wonder and delight."--The Washington Post

"I've read other novels extrapolating the dangers of computerization but Mockingbird stings me, the writer, the hardest. The notion, the possibility, that people might indeed lose the ability, and worse, the desire to read, is made acutely probable."--New York Times bestselling author ANNE MCCAFFREY

"Walter Tevis is science fiction's great neglected master, one of the definitive bridges between sf and literature.  For those who know his work only through the movies, the lucid prose and literary vision of Mockingbird and The Man Who Fell to Earth will come as a revelation."  
--AL SARRANTONIO,  Author of The Five Worlds saga

About the author

Walter Tevis was an English literature professor at the University of Ohio and is best known for three of his novels, which were turned into blockbuster films: The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler, and The Color of Money. He is also the author of The Steps of the Sun, which appeared shortly before his death in 1984.

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