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Title: Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang : A Novel by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 0-312-86615-1 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thought provoking!!
Comment: I went into the reading of this book as a dreaded high school assignment some time ago, and came away with a haunting image of a society losing individuality and imagination. I was infuriated by the idea that the loss of the characteristics which make us unique was acceptable, expected, and desired. It made me think of what my own ideas of cloning really were, at a time when the subject was just becoming feasible. Have you ever pondered what a society of, say, ten people created over and over into hundreds would be like? This book gives just one view of that situation. As limited as that view may seem, it really opened my mind, and helped me to understand where I want to be in this issue. I HIGHLY suggest reading it, especially if you have followed any of the latest developments in regards to the subject of cloning.
Rating: 5
Summary: Find a copy!
Comment: I searched high and low to find this book, and considering that it won the 1977 Hugo, I'm surprised it was so hard to find. I hope that word-of-mouth spreads for this book and that it is republished again soon.
The book deals with many different themes and issues, and at times is reminicient of "1984" and "On the Beach" but at its heart it is a book about a society of clones. And as usual, in matters of new science frontiers, of what society fears and Congress outlaws, science-fiction bridges the gap and asks and answers the questions of ethics and morality that arise.
Doomsday comes and mankind's only hope for survivial is to resort to cloning as its form of reproduction. But a society of clones becomes an almost entirely different species, who live as a collective. But among the clones emerges an individual who challenges the society that he lives in, and exerts his freedom to live and think as an individual. And the battle of collective minds against the individual quickly becomes the battle for the survival of mankind, once again.
Considering the attention that cloning has been getting lately, I urge all fans of sci-fi to seek out old copies of this book, or to encourage the publishers to release a new printing. The book earned its Hugo Award, as twenty years ago it was raising the same questions that are being asked today. The first third of the book seems rushed, and is more of a long prologue than anything, but the last two-thirds of the book are as challenging a subject as any novel in the genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow!!!
Comment: What a great story. I vould not put it down. Maybe a bit dated (written in 76 or 77) but a marvellous post-holocaust story. The woman can WRITE!!
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Title: Defense for the Devil by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551666286 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Skeletons by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551667495 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: No Defense by Wilhelm ISBN: 1551667851 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 0312179146 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551669072 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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