Catalyst

by M.D. Benoit

2046. Mutations and MIDS ravage the planet, and the need for body parts and organ transplants escalate. Corbin has created GenOrg, a farm that speed-grows in coffin-like pods thousands of human clones from stolen DNA. One the clones are sentient. Their genetic memory has even given them the ability to communicate with each other. Ashar, a self-named clone, escapes GenOrg, promising to return to free the others. Running for his life, he is joined by Sara Logan, a geneticist with a guilty secret, and Pietr Ludov, a reporter seeking the ultimate story. They hatch out a plan to bring down Corbin, but it's not enough for Ashar-he wants the clones free. Struggling with his own genetic identity, Ashar devises a plan that will unleash repercussions.

356 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 2010

About the author

M. D. has been writing for over ten years. Metered Space, from the noir SF Mystery series The Jack Meter Case Files, was her first published novel. The next one in the series, Meter Made, came out in November 2005. Another Jack Meter Case File, Meter Destiny, is scheduled to come out in 2007-08, from Zumaya Otherworlds. Her first SF Thriller, Synergy, was released in March 2007 .

In 2000, M. D. edited a children's anthology, "The Friendship Anthology", published by
the Nepean Public Library, and was the editor of a Canadian Anthology, Looking In... Portraits of the Canadian Soul, a collection of stories, essays and poetry, accompanied by pictures taken by a series of Canadian photographers from across the country. She has also been involved in numerous additional editing projects such as Now we're cooking! 43 Authors in the Kitchen.

M. D. also writes reviews of SF novels for The Eternal Night, an online SF Review site from the UK.

M. D. Benoit discovered science fiction and mystery through her father's bedtime stories, which were always full of gadgets, dark doorways, and disappearing people. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and her cat (who is really an alien in disguise). She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she lived for eight years before moving to Ottawa, Ontario.

She is currently hard at work on her sixth manuscript, Entropy and a fourth Jack Meter Case File, Meter Parents.