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The Fugitive Clone Act
THIS BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR NOW BANNED BY SUCH AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AS RUSSIA AND FLORIDA. READ THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL TICK OFF A CENSOR.
Trigger Imprisonment, discussions of self-harm
"If you are reading this, then I am long since dead. It has been my sincere hope that someone would find this journal and know my story. My name is Lindiwe, and I exist..."Lindiwe has only known light blue walls and cold, unfeeling faces throughout her entire life. Her entire world exists within a single building, enclosed in a few rooms. No windows. No peers. No sense of this "outside" that all of the adults around her seem to be able to travel to so easily. She follows her orders, does the jobs she is told to do, and recognizes that she is well taken care of...though she only recognizes that because it is the only thing she has ever been told. But she can feel how much is missing. When she looks into the eyes of her handlers and guards, she knows that none of them have been raised in this way. She must find out what she is, what this place is. Her quest to understand the full extent of the world she actually lives in, and her existence in it, will begin when one doctor, more humane than the others, secretly teaches her how to read and write. From there, her chronicle of her life begins...
Trigger Imprisonment, discussions of self-harm
"If you are reading this, then I am long since dead. It has been my sincere hope that someone would find this journal and know my story. My name is Lindiwe, and I exist..."Lindiwe has only known light blue walls and cold, unfeeling faces throughout her entire life. Her entire world exists within a single building, enclosed in a few rooms. No windows. No peers. No sense of this "outside" that all of the adults around her seem to be able to travel to so easily. She follows her orders, does the jobs she is told to do, and recognizes that she is well taken care of...though she only recognizes that because it is the only thing she has ever been told. But she can feel how much is missing. When she looks into the eyes of her handlers and guards, she knows that none of them have been raised in this way. She must find out what she is, what this place is. Her quest to understand the full extent of the world she actually lives in, and her existence in it, will begin when one doctor, more humane than the others, secretly teaches her how to read and write. From there, her chronicle of her life begins...
226 pages, Hardcover
First published January 25, 2020
9 people want to read
About the author
David Gerald King
11 books20 followersI have always enjoyed writing, but I imagine there are innumerable people who can say the same. There is a singular joy in creating a world the way one does in science fiction or fantasy, and a single challenge in trying to maintain the rules you have set forth for that world.
Since middle school, I've been trying to write a coherent, long-form story. I succeeded in this only while I was on study abroad in Japan, when I was able to start and finish "Utsukushii Kuro." It was a combination of English writing practice to keep my skills up and a gift to a friend. Following that came "Licantropa Sogno," more in tune with my preferences of subject, and "La Zorra Ciega," which was my first attempt at writing action scenes.
I have now released another 3 novels of more varied subjects. "Vox," has just been released, as a science fiction, pirate fantasy. It is also a writing experiment, a challenge I issued myself to try writing a story in which no one can speak. "Mind Capture" looks at a future where medical science has gone through one great advance, allowing human minds to be downloaded into computers, but deals with the idea of running into something science can't explain. "Sabem" is my take on the zombie motif, and will hopefully become my first series work. I go back a bit to the older idea of zombies as specifically-raised servants to a "master" that controls them, and explore the idea of enslaved undead, and everything that can go seriously wrong with that.
I am grateful to anyone who takes the time to read, and all the more thrilled to read any review of my work, even negative ones, so long as they are constructive. If you are kind enough to leave a review here, I would humbly ask that you leave the same at the Amazon pages, though I understand if you might be busy. Thank you all, and enjoi.
Since middle school, I've been trying to write a coherent, long-form story. I succeeded in this only while I was on study abroad in Japan, when I was able to start and finish "Utsukushii Kuro." It was a combination of English writing practice to keep my skills up and a gift to a friend. Following that came "Licantropa Sogno," more in tune with my preferences of subject, and "La Zorra Ciega," which was my first attempt at writing action scenes.
I have now released another 3 novels of more varied subjects. "Vox," has just been released, as a science fiction, pirate fantasy. It is also a writing experiment, a challenge I issued myself to try writing a story in which no one can speak. "Mind Capture" looks at a future where medical science has gone through one great advance, allowing human minds to be downloaded into computers, but deals with the idea of running into something science can't explain. "Sabem" is my take on the zombie motif, and will hopefully become my first series work. I go back a bit to the older idea of zombies as specifically-raised servants to a "master" that controls them, and explore the idea of enslaved undead, and everything that can go seriously wrong with that.
I am grateful to anyone who takes the time to read, and all the more thrilled to read any review of my work, even negative ones, so long as they are constructive. If you are kind enough to leave a review here, I would humbly ask that you leave the same at the Amazon pages, though I understand if you might be busy. Thank you all, and enjoi.
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May 23, 2022
Science fiction at its best! A modern author taps traditional sci-fi elements
A wonderful science fiction story by David Gerald King. Like all good sci-fi, “The Fugitive Clone Act” deftly mixes modern struggles and past struggles of humanity in a far future setting. King taps into traditional sci-fi elements of dystopia, paranoia, and far future technologies, but the author also blends in new elements such as the freedom offered by the age of information we find ourselves at the dawn of. As I read this book, I found myself thoroughly enjoying a return by a modern author to the high quality science fiction that I enjoyed reading as a child. This is neither a book about alien invasion nor of zombie apocalypse, and that is most welcome to this reader! King’s story takes us along a harrowing path and keeps the reader hooked the whole way through. This book’s world is a dystopia with all of the complicated facets that we expect to find in a good science fiction story. Excellent read!
A wonderful science fiction story by David Gerald King. Like all good sci-fi, “The Fugitive Clone Act” deftly mixes modern struggles and past struggles of humanity in a far future setting. King taps into traditional sci-fi elements of dystopia, paranoia, and far future technologies, but the author also blends in new elements such as the freedom offered by the age of information we find ourselves at the dawn of. As I read this book, I found myself thoroughly enjoying a return by a modern author to the high quality science fiction that I enjoyed reading as a child. This is neither a book about alien invasion nor of zombie apocalypse, and that is most welcome to this reader! King’s story takes us along a harrowing path and keeps the reader hooked the whole way through. This book’s world is a dystopia with all of the complicated facets that we expect to find in a good science fiction story. Excellent read!
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