Mockingbird

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780553141443 A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. Where quick sex is best, where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. A dying world of no children, no art, no reading. Where some still refuse to surrender. And love is the only hope. A strange love triangle. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, whose only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou, whose passion for each other is the only future. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish. That beats with the force of life. And celebrates joy and love, the strength of hope, the force of the word, and the magic of a dream.