Shepherd

by J. Hunter Holly

No laughter, no tears, not even a smile crosses the faces of the populace. They are doomed by an omnipotent technology. Sentenced to an existence without human emotions. Through his love for Peter, a mentally defective child, Frederic Dainig is able to recapture his feelings and thwart the Anti-Emotion Conditioners. Bearing the highest of all emotions, love and compassion, Dainig sets out to destroy the society that is destroying man.

190 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1977

About the author

Joan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Joan Holly also contributed stories for Roger Elwood's series of books and sci-fi magazines, under both her real name(Joan C. Holly) and her pseudonym (Joan Hunter Holly).

Joan died of lung cancer in 1982.