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The year is 2030. The place is Centerville, a typical city.Clifton Pembroke is a young professional with a promising career in the field of "disability advocacy." He helps people raise their disability profile-a single index that encompasses every variety of injustice and disadvantage that may befall an individual.Raising one's disability profile can bring a host of benefits, including subsidies and preferential treatment. But some people are no longer satisfied with these benefits. They assert that their very birth was an injustice, that a fundamental travesty has occurred, that in fact they should have been a different person.They even know who that other person is, and they intend to receive their just compensation-by obtaining the legal right to seize the other's identity.Clifton becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas that run to the core of what it means to be human. In choosing sides, he must make difficult, even dangerous decisions. In his search for answers, he gropes in the darkness until he meets the people who are building the workshop of the second self.
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Gary Wolf is the author of futuristic novels that portray worlds in which multiculturalism and political correctness have run amok. 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 date2006
- ISBN 10 0595404960
- ISBN 13 9780595404964
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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