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In the year 2550, where
premediated murder is supposedly impossible, a serial killer begins
attacking very old men with specially bred plants that eat them from
the inside out, creating the bizarre "flowers of evil" ("les
fleurs du mal"). Biotech artist Oscar Wilde teams with UN detectives
Charlotte Holmes and Hal Watson to unravel this futuristic nightmare.
A Hugo Award finalist in the Novella category. "The Undead: A
Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the
world of the future, the latest rage is the creation of "Undead"
personality simulations to place within the tombstones of the recently
departed. But when a cluster of new monuments is vandalized, cemetery
Chief Security Officer Tann Hicks must find the perpetrators and stop
the crimes. Are the sims really dead? As the controversy over the
Undead grows, with religious fanatics lining up against right-to-life
advocates, Tann finds himself at the center of a growing political
and media storm.
Published by The Borgo Press,
August 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4344-1167-9
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