Sadrac En El Horno (Spanish Edition)

by Robert Silverberg

Paperback, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

Science Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Ultramar (1995)

Description

The stunning novel of a man surrounded by machines that flash instantaneous pictures of everything happening...a man surfeited with drugs that allow him to be eyewitness to the living past and pleasured by sensual women who vie for his favours...a man named Shadrach who finds little rest in his miracle-infested world. A supershocker about what happens when telemetric sensors no longer suffice, when the great Khan, ruler of the Earth, needs more...when he needs to survive through the body of a virile, healthy very special man - through Shadrach Mordecai

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LibraryThing member Bruce_McNair

This story was written in the mid 1970s and set in May 2012 of a possible future 30 years from then. It pictures a world ruled by an autocrat who has taken advantage of its weakened state following a devastating virus war that has left all mankind susceptible to the organ rot. Shadrach is his

personal physician, but like his biblical namesake, he finds himself in a difficult situation facing almost certain death with no apparent way out. That he finds a way out and manages to maintain his Hippocratic oath is remarkable. This is a good story without achieving great heights. There is drama and there is suspense, but not enough of either to make it a great novel.

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