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Mockingbird

Walter S. Tevis

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#2093 of 8,085 books · #534 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1980) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1981).

In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou are a man and a woman whose passion for each other sparks a jealousy in Spofforth—and provides the only hope for the future of human beings on earth.

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Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN-13
9780340251935
Topics
Post-apocalyptic societyLoss of literacy and artHuman vs. machine

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