Perfect People
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Best-selling author & film director Robert H. Lieberman takes us into the unique underground civilization of Cretoria where the last of living humanity, genetically modified to Perfects and Nearly Perfects— Imperfects long since eliminated. Or are they? It’s a society where reproduction has long since been taken out of the hands of humans, where “boy-springs and “girl-springs” are developed in a ”Hatchery,” and sexual pleasure is provided by “flanking” machines.
Enter detective Creally Leemling, a Nearly Perfect, created in his Maker’s image, but not perfect … still human enough to doubt, to probe dangerously close to the ultimate secret of Creatoria … to dare desire a woman his world said did not, must not, could not exist.
We meet Wendy — an Imperfect. She was born, not made, a beautiful vibrant creature filled with passions and pain … a wonderful exotic sexual being … a real, not ideal, woman risking capture and death for one last love.
And there is Weems— a Perfect. Tall and imposing, Weems is a triumph of genetic engineering. Powerful as a god and lacking all physical human flaws — which made it easy for him to lie, scheme, and commit cold-blooded murder — he is the possessor of a shocking secret.
Publishers Weekly - "Suspenseful narrative and unusually sharp, evocative visual sense that speeds."
New York Times - "Mr. Lieberman has a sharp eye for the incongruous and the humor that can accompany desperate happenings."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The background of this novel is standard Brave New World: a genetically engineered, deracinated future without sex, art or music. The protagonist is a cop, though, and he sees through the myths of Creatoria, the huge underground city whereso they are toldthe last remnants of mankind are hiding in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The same elements of curiosity and empathy that make Creally Leemling a good Peace Monitor separate him from his cool, placid society and prepare him for his meeting with unreconstructed humans and subsequent revelations about Creatoria. Lieberman departs from his hand-me-down premise in the telling. The suspenseful narrative and the unusually sharp, evocative visual sense speed from stainless Creatoria to gritty outlying farms to a lush rain forest (a museum of the old days) and finally to the sewage pipes and ventilation shafts that offer escape.
