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Eugenica
Eugenica is an alternate history adventure set in 1932. British Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald won the 1931 General Election because of the support given to him by the British Eugenics Society, the cost of that support is the creation of the Ministry of Social Biology (MoSB). Brinley Valentine Husher, the newly appointed Minister for Social Biology, vows to improve the health of the nation along eugenic principles. His new facility at Spring Bank, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, opens to take into care the feeble-minded, the dissolute, the deformed of body and mind, from private and charitable hospitals. Leaving the daily running of Spring Bank to his more than able deputy, Helene Monroe, Husher takes to the skies to hosts an Extraordinary Eugenics Congress aboard the new R102 airship to promote his new ministry and to push Britain to the forefront of eugenics.
For Grace Fielding and Thomas Morrow, the reality of Spring Bank and the MoSB is the threat of enforced euthanasia. They are the young disabled, newly arrived in a facility that is already turning inhuman, and they are attracting the vicious attention of the Red Band trustees; if the Red Bands do not kill them then the dysgenic policies of the MoSB surely will!
There is a secret war being fought in Britain, however. It is being waged between the Verdure, a shadowy cabal of wealth and political power, and the Indivisibles, a disparate group of individuals opposed to eugenics. Grace, Tom, and their friends become unwitting pawns in this unknown war, racing by car, by train, and by aeroplane across the country to keep one step ahead of their enemies. For Tom, it is a fight for life but for Grace, it is a struggle to discover who she really is and why she is being pursued so resolutely by the beautiful face of the MoSB; Helene Monroe.
As the R102 airship crosses and re-crosses the Atlantic, flying from Britain to America to Germany and back to Britain again, a war erupts in the English countryside. Doc Hunter, a eugenic superman, challenges the Indivisibles. Dr Mardling uses the unfortunates incarcerated in Spring Bank to conduct human experiments in an attempt to create a Titan Soldier. Grace Fielding, born with only one hand and one leg, abandoned at birth and alone in the world finds herself pitted against a government ministry and the agents of the Verdure and all she has to call upon is her one true friend, a blind boy born of mixed parents.
Eugenica is the nightmare that eugenics gives rise to when the principles of a false science become government policy.
For Grace Fielding and Thomas Morrow, the reality of Spring Bank and the MoSB is the threat of enforced euthanasia. They are the young disabled, newly arrived in a facility that is already turning inhuman, and they are attracting the vicious attention of the Red Band trustees; if the Red Bands do not kill them then the dysgenic policies of the MoSB surely will!
There is a secret war being fought in Britain, however. It is being waged between the Verdure, a shadowy cabal of wealth and political power, and the Indivisibles, a disparate group of individuals opposed to eugenics. Grace, Tom, and their friends become unwitting pawns in this unknown war, racing by car, by train, and by aeroplane across the country to keep one step ahead of their enemies. For Tom, it is a fight for life but for Grace, it is a struggle to discover who she really is and why she is being pursued so resolutely by the beautiful face of the MoSB; Helene Monroe.
As the R102 airship crosses and re-crosses the Atlantic, flying from Britain to America to Germany and back to Britain again, a war erupts in the English countryside. Doc Hunter, a eugenic superman, challenges the Indivisibles. Dr Mardling uses the unfortunates incarcerated in Spring Bank to conduct human experiments in an attempt to create a Titan Soldier. Grace Fielding, born with only one hand and one leg, abandoned at birth and alone in the world finds herself pitted against a government ministry and the agents of the Verdure and all she has to call upon is her one true friend, a blind boy born of mixed parents.
Eugenica is the nightmare that eugenics gives rise to when the principles of a false science become government policy.
454 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 28, 2016
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Peter C. Whitaker
6 books9 followersMy father worked in engineering and mother in printing. I left school with unexceptional qualifications and after a series of dead-end jobs I went to Coleg Harlech Adult Education College in Gwynedd, North Wales, to study English Literature and Philosophy. After graduating I drifted into the Civil Service.
My mother ensured that both I and my two brothers could read and write before we started school, a gift that I am always grateful to her for. It is as a result of this that I have always been an avid reader. My main criteria for picking up a book to read is the hope that it has a good story, the genre always comes second to me. As a result I have read very widely and I don’t have any favourites. I do return to particular authors but I am not the kind of reader who must have someone’s latest book as soon as it comes out, I’ll get around to it eventually.
I am interested in an equally diverse number of subjects, my main interests being natural history, human history, art, theatre, cinema, football, travelling, science, and politics to a degree. I love life and the living of it and I hope that this is reflected in my writing.
My mother ensured that both I and my two brothers could read and write before we started school, a gift that I am always grateful to her for. It is as a result of this that I have always been an avid reader. My main criteria for picking up a book to read is the hope that it has a good story, the genre always comes second to me. As a result I have read very widely and I don’t have any favourites. I do return to particular authors but I am not the kind of reader who must have someone’s latest book as soon as it comes out, I’ll get around to it eventually.
I am interested in an equally diverse number of subjects, my main interests being natural history, human history, art, theatre, cinema, football, travelling, science, and politics to a degree. I love life and the living of it and I hope that this is reflected in my writing.
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March 15, 2022
Eugenica, a book to ignite many passions within you.
The horrific scenario of how it might have been if the governments had adopted a policy of ridding society of its undesirables, i.e. the weak the disabled and the non perfect examples of humanity, as if they were mere animals, unfolds in this story. Very quickly the reader hates the scientists, abhors the newly created Ministry of Social Biology, and wills the disabled children to escape their awful plight. When Captain Falcon turned up unexpectedly to help the children escape I could have cheered! At last some support. The story picks up pace from this point, the children escape, SpringBank facility is in chaos and Grace has learned that she has a very special father in Dr Hunt who now takes up the fight with the Indivisables against eugenics and the Verdure.
The only downside for me, was the language is both very scientific and quite flowery, which had me using the handy dictionary facility quite often. Descriptive, and with good location knowledge to add a sense of credibility, this really is a very good read.
The horrific scenario of how it might have been if the governments had adopted a policy of ridding society of its undesirables, i.e. the weak the disabled and the non perfect examples of humanity, as if they were mere animals, unfolds in this story. Very quickly the reader hates the scientists, abhors the newly created Ministry of Social Biology, and wills the disabled children to escape their awful plight. When Captain Falcon turned up unexpectedly to help the children escape I could have cheered! At last some support. The story picks up pace from this point, the children escape, SpringBank facility is in chaos and Grace has learned that she has a very special father in Dr Hunt who now takes up the fight with the Indivisables against eugenics and the Verdure.
The only downside for me, was the language is both very scientific and quite flowery, which had me using the handy dictionary facility quite often. Descriptive, and with good location knowledge to add a sense of credibility, this really is a very good read.
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