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OverviewThe year is 2071. It is a world very recognizable to our own, only now the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance. Each US citizen has a Copy living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest. If an Original is sick or injured and requires surgery, whatever he or she needs is taken from their clone. In the two decades since the program's inception, no person outside the government has ever seen their Copy or been inside the Clearances, and no clone has ever successfully escaped--until now. The Bradbury Report is a fascinating meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of as a race and society. It is a powerful work of speculative fiction, beautifully written, about love, identity, free will, aging, and intelligence that will linger with you long after reading. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steven Polansky , Stefan RudnickiPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.70cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781433272707ISBN 10: 1433272709 Publication Date: 04 May 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn inventive, cerebral thriller about a man faced with the ultimate moral quandary...Polansky does a fine job of wrestling with the moral dilemmas posited by writers like Philip K. Dick and others, and his characterization of Alan is sublimely witty and soulfully sympathetic. -- Kirkus Reviews [In] this ambitious, sometimes chilling, sometimes heartbreaking novel...Polansky does an extraordinary job of imagining the condition of being a human copy, while challenging readers to consider the ethicality and inhumanity of such human engineering. -- Booklist (starred review) The author's portrait of medical cloning and its effects on a near-future society is compelling, especially as enhanced by the deepest voice in audio, that of Stefan Rudnicki. -- AudioFile Polansky's debut features well-developed characters and strong writing. -- Publishers Weekly Polansky is really telling the story of lonely people, of what it means to be human, of the moral choices in advances of technology. And he does it with gorgeous, unhurried writing that makes us ache for all the characters. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press Author InformationSteven Polansky grew up in New York City. His short fiction has appeared in, among other places, the New Yorker, Harper's, Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, New England Review, and Minnesota Monthly. His first book, the story collection Dating Miss Universe, won the Sandstone Prize for Fiction and the Minnesota Book Award. He lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, with his wife and daughter. Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |