The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure.
Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth.
A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.
- ISBN10 0345431626
- ISBN13 9780345431622
- Publish Date 12 October 1999 (first published 1 February 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.
- Edition del Rey ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 275
- Language English