Tony Compton

Slaves in Eden (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The year 2082. Cardan Gentle lives on an idyllic island, keeping himself in tiptop physical condition for 'subsumption' with his god, though he has no idea what this means. His whole world is himself, his 200 friends and the 'angels' who look after them. After some disturbing events he is rescued, or captured, his horizons are infinitely widened and his probable destiny revealed, to substitute in dangerous situations for the one from whom he was cloned.

But from his captor, agnostic theologian Bjorn Harting, doctors Pentalla and Aidan, "Captain Pugwash", other clones, the enigmatic Peary Binoche and eventually his own "original", he discovers his fate will be even more horrific. However, he learns he is also the key to unlock and destroy the whole system, though it nearly destroys him. The action moves from his island to Ardnamurchan in Scotland, Cragside in Northumberland and eventually to Ely, where his efforts are rewarded and his sufferings assuaged, in what is now ' our fragile, damaged yet hopeful world'.

A dystopian novel? Yes, but with hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tony Compton
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370926978
• Artikelnr.: 70400174

Autorenporträt

I was born and brought up in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK. After school at what is now Brockenhurst College, and Cambridge University, I worked briefly on colour TV cameras with the Marconi Company in Essex, then taught school physics there and in Hertfordshire. I moved on to electronics, specializing in the medical field as a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire (formerly Hatfield Polytechnic), along with some design consultancy. I retired with my wife Elisabeth to Hexham, Northumberland, in 2006, from where we visit our three children and five grandchildren as often as we can.
Since then I have continued my other interests of classical music, particularly choral and organ, photography, natural history and theology (from a liberal/progressive standpoint). I also assist Elisabeth in running a Fairtrade stall. Elisabeth took the photo while we were on a walk in Northumberland, our other joint activity.
My writing stems from a desire to explore how science and technology affect people, their beliefs and their lives, as much as the subjects themselves, though I read New Scientist regularly to keep up to date.