Meat Market

by Alex Thatcher

In one generation, our society’s technology, morals, beliefs and fundamental place in the universe changed drastically. With life spans becoming longer and technological gains coming quicker, what might occur in the next generation? Difficult questions of society and self arise as we have already become a throwaway society with debt the likes of which has never been seen. Why? Does this give us our identity? Are we becoming numbers in a giant machine, and if so, how far could it go? What, then, identifies self? The body? What if even your body had a price tag and could be owned? Kenny “Kansas” Nash returns from the first manned interstellar mission and finds such a world, built by his brother. With the help of his dead father, a junked-out flying car and the mysterious B3 his dad invented, he sets out to make things right. If only he knew what right was.

164 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2006