Mockingbird

The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It’s a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have—to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream. Mockingbird Review From the Inside Flap “A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley’s , , and .” — “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 , for its central event and symbol is the rediscovery of reading.” — “Because of its affirmation of such persistent human values as curiosity, courage, and compassion, along with its undeniable narrative power, will become one of those books that coming generations will periodically rediscover with wonder and delight.” — “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.” — 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 and will come as a revelation.” —AL SARRANTONIO, Author of saga