Frek and the Elixir

Name: Frek and the Elixir
Author: Rudy Rucker
ISBN: 9781466804883

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A misfit boy in the thirty-first century goes on a quest across the galaxy for an elixir to save Earth's species in this science fiction adventure. In the year 3003, the world is a biotech utopia. The tweaked plants and animals are quite wonderful, but there are only a few dozen of the old species left. Nature has been denatured by the profiteers of NuBioCom. The arbitrary, all-powerful, and mysterious Gov runs the pervasive NuBioCom and everything else on Earth. It's up to Frek Huggins, a lad from dull, sleepy Middleville, to venture out into the galaxy to fetch an elixir to restore Earth's lost species. At least that's what a friendly alien cuttlefish tells him the elixir will do. But can you really trust aliens? Frek is smack in the middle of a galactic struggle for humanity's freedom, accompanied by his talking dog, Wow, the down-home mutant, Gibby, and an asteroid-raised girl named Renata. The final liberation depends on freeing Frek's long-lost father with the help of a benevolent alien called the Magic Pig.

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