Hermetech

by Storm Constantine

Book Overview

A near future Earth is dying due to human interference; Tech-Green is doing its best to repair the damage and is insisting that humankind leaves the planet to give it time to heal. Ari Famber, is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747236097
• ISBN13: 9780747236092
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Headline
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Alchemy of love

For the scenario we are reminded of Walter Jon William's Hardwired: a poisoned Erth ravaged by pollution and ozone layer's depletion, people living in domed cities with extremely corrupt lower sectors, huge orbital cities in the sky, nomads roaming the land. A group of these nomads, called "Star's Eye" stops near Ari Famber's house. Ari is the daughter of dead scientist Ewan Famber, who performed genetics experiments on her. The leader of the Star's Eye, Leila Saatchi, erstwhile colleague of Ewan Famber, convinces Ari, troubled by sexual problems, to join the group, headed toward the metropolis called Arkady. Here lives another colleague of Ewan Famber, the robopsychologist Quinx Roirbak, who, Leila hopes, will be able to deal with Ari's problems. With Quinx lives the obscure scientist Tammuz Malamute, a neuropsychologist in search of a job. Tammuz finds himself psychologically counseling the once street boy Zambia Crevecoeur, who unwittingly sold himself to the female pimp Jahsaxa Penumbra, who had him surgically modified as an intersex. A great part of the novel is dedicated to Ari's voyage to Arkady with the group,a group of bizarre gypsy-like, vaguely hippie men and women, who'll help Ari to star coping with her identity. The sexual energy she has been made capable of manifesting would change the life of all characters, celebrating the healing power of love and empathy. This is a very interesting futuristic novel, blending elements of science-fiction and the fantastic in a style reminding us of Master of Space and Time of Rudy Rucker, and raising, in an intriguing way, the ever problematic issues of genetic manipulation and envirinment preservation. The world, as in Nemesis by Isaac Asimov,that also features a problematic adolescent, shall be saved by a child. A celebration of love, sexuality and human potential that's pure Storm Constantine