Children of the End
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Publisher Description
Deep in a converted Cold War-era bunker, a visionary scientist has devised a way to cure all the ills of humanity in a single stroke. No more war, pestilence, starvation, pollution.
The price will be high, but then, progress is never free.
Pendergast's solution is entrusted to the extraordinary children he calls Loners—the ultimate fruit of his genius. They're almost ready for release.
But not everyone agrees with his vision of a perfect future; Pendergast is forced to deal with an ordinary woman and an ordinary man who stand in his way.
He'll also have to deal with something else. Down in the darkness of the bunker, the Loners have developed a vision of their own.
One they're eager to share with the world.
First ebook edition of a 1991 hardcover original.
"Brilliant." - Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting." - The Bookwatch
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The plot of this B-grade shocker--Clements's second novel, after 6:02 --might easily have come from some low-budget '50s sci-fi movie. In a gory and unlikely scheme to save the world, Dr. George Pendergast genetically engineers a superpowerful, shape-changing race of carnivorous ``Loners'' to hunt humans and so reduce the world's population to a more sustainable level. When Deborah Kosarek, a curious employee of Pendergast's company, and helpful security guard Tony Garwood poke their noses too far into Pendergast's business, he sends his psychopathic assistant to eliminate them. Meanwhile, the Loners have acquired a Bible and developed a patchwork religion that defines their destiny: to kill all humans and take over the world. The novel's absurd premises--e.g., that Pendergast decoded the entire human genome in five years with a computer based on brain-like neurochips--are no better than its plot. With predictable characters, action advanced by coincidence and the not very frightening Loners--who speak in an unreadable patois of Bible bits and TV phrases (``So the ArrrrrrrK of the Fatherrrrrrr. Accept no imitationsssss'')--Clements's novel fails as surely as Pendergast's world-saving plans.
