Gaia's Toys

by Rebecca Ore

Book Overview

It's 20 minutes into the future--a place where gene restructuring is the norm, where if you don't have a job, you become a welfare drone, where children go hungry in the streets, but the wealthy save endangered species in eco-bubbles. And where a group of eco-terrorists will band together to stop the government from robbing Americans of their last scrap of freedom.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312857810
• ISBN13: 9780312857813
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

William Gibson Meets John Le Carre

An eco terrorist group sets up an orphan who has fallen in with them. High tech, nano tech, and government agents abound in this wild, thought provoking story (how would you like to start life all over again?). Like Gibson and Le Carre, at times it is hard to understand what is going on. Go back and re read, it's worth it.

Dystopia at its best (or worst)

The title says it all: the book is about allthe various technologies we humans developand then go on to use for vile purposes; welfare drones serving as human computers, tranquilizing wasps and giant mantises are only a few of the toys employed by Ore's very real and plausible future world. If you're cynical and fed up one societal terror after another, read this book. I wouldn't be surprised if the author gets regular phonecalls asking her if she's starting a cult.