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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827671803321

Autore

Alonso Kassten <1968->

Titolo

The pet thief / / Kassten Alonso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : FC2, [2013]

ISBN

1-57366-839-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Human experimentation in medicine

Science fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).

Nota di contenuto

The Pet Thief; Tsokka tsokka tsokka; A Bibliography; In Gratitude

Sommario/riassunto

The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world.  When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically-for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective.Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, "cat people," who