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War is hell, and the conflict tearing the world apart may be humankind's last. Set adrift on a makeshift raft in the middle of the South Pacific, the sole survivor of a sabotaged space-shuttle flight, undersecretary of state Calvert Roberts is certain his life is coming to an end. But fate intervenes, depositing him dehydrated and half starved on the beach of an uncharted island with a giant M etched into a cliff wall. At first it appears to be paradise, but Eden has a dark side: Here, Dr. Mortimer Dart is playing God. A genius geneticist who is certifiably mad, he is called Master by the unspeakable creations of his predecessor--monstrous creatures, neither human nor animal but some nightmarish hybrid. Yet as horrible as the stranded government official finds these abominations, it is the truth behind Dart's experiments that chill Roberts's blood--for it will open wide a window onto an inescapable future of emptiness, ashes, and death. One of twentieth-century science fiction's brightest luminaries, Brian W. Aldiss pays homage to one of the genre's most beloved progenitors, H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and other classics. An Island Called Moreau is a gripping near-future tale of inhuman experimentation, dystopia, morality, war, and mad science that honors and updates Wells's masterwork, The Island of Doctor Moreau.

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Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award-winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three-volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four-volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was ""Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,"" which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg as A. I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. Andrew Joseph Perez is an actor, singer, stuntman, and jack-of-all-trades based in Los Angeles. He can be heard narrating audiobooks on Audible, iTunes, and elsewhere. He's also voiced characters in Gundam SEED Destiny, Dragon Pilot, English dubs of Netflix shows like Luis Miguel and Unauthorized Living, and Taishi Ci in Dynasty Warriors 9. He's been seen on stage at Musical Theatre West, MainStreet Theatre, A Noise Within, South Coast Rep, American Stage (Florida), Tennessee Shakespeare Co, Next Act and Renaissance Theatreworks (Wisconsin), San Jose Stage, Music Circus, and others. Andrew Joseph Perez is an actor, singer, stuntman, and jack-of-all-trades based in Los Angeles. He can be heard narrating audiobooks on Audible, iTunes, and elsewhere. He's also voiced characters in Gundam SEED Destiny, Dragon Pilot, English dubs of Netflix shows like Luis Miguel and Unauthorized Living, and Taishi Ci in Dynasty Warriors 9. He's been seen on stage at Musical Theatre West, MainStreet Theatre, A Noise Within, South Coast Rep, American Stage (Florida), Tennessee Shakespeare Co, Next Act and Renaissance Theatreworks (Wisconsin), San Jose Stage, Music Circus, and others.

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