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Graham Rohde is one of the most respected art and antique dealers of the twenty-fourth century. Son of an eminent scholar, he is one of the period's leading art historians.Rohde spends his time traveling across the Galaxy, buying and selling rare and valuable objects. After an antique is stolen from an isolated and forgotten planet, he is hired to find the missing piece. He soon discovers that the theft is only one incident in an interplanetary dispute that is mushrooming into a clash of civilizations. A bitter struggle is erupting over the redefinition of humanity, and it may determine the destiny of the Galaxy for millennia to come.He watches as mankind vacillates between two antithetical conceptions of society and human nature: On the one hand, reaching for the summit of creativity and intellectual proficiency through ever-greater accomplishments in arts and letters; on the other, the preplanned distribution of physical attributes, intelligence, and ideas among the population-a world in which individual genius is banished from life.As he faces the growing danger, Rohde resolves to decipher the outstanding enigma of his era: Why are people willing, even eager, to attain an existence without spontaneity, without the free and unfettered evolution of the human spirit?
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Gary Wolf is the author of futuristic novels that portray worlds in which multiculturalism and political correctness have run amok.
Raised in New York and London, Wolf in 1980 received his B.A. degree in political science, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Buffalo. There he wrote a thesis on the subject of urban renewal in the "Rust Belt" cities of America.
He continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where in 1986 he received his M.A. in international relations, specializing in politics of the Middle East. His articles on the Arab-Israel conflict have appeared in numerous publications.
From 2000 to 2006 Wolf lived in Paris, during which time he witnessed the breathtaking collapse of traditional European culture. Against the backdrop of the city's aesthetic and historical splendor, he observed the unraveling of Western civilization under the weight of multiculturalism, deconstructionism, the "root causes" mantra, moral equivalence, and self-hatred.
His reaction was to author a trilogy that confronts this process and its derivatives. Using the genre of speculative fiction, he wrote three futuristic novels that tackle different aspects of the contemporary malaise:
* Workshop of the Second Self -- dumbing down, reverse discrimination, and the victim industry; * Alternating Worlds -- multiculturalism; * The Embracer -- gender confusion.
Now living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wolf is working on a new novel.
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- PublisheriUniverse
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0595340024
- ISBN 13 9780595340026
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages190
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