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Synopsis
In post-AIDS America, a lethal retrovirus that affects body and soul renders sexual inhibition legally enforceable by the ruthless Federal Bureau of Biological Supervision, until virologist Dr. Max Verne joins a group of resisters.
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From Kirkus Reviews
From psychoanalyst and clinician Beller comes this medical thriller set in the not too distant future, a time when the virus that causes AIDS has mutated into a new retrovirus that literally burns its victims alive in fever. The disease--called Sacred Fire, after a medieval plague--has decimated the population and now threatens the entire country. As a result, a rigorously repressive government has taken hold of America. Men are forced to wear devices that inhibit their sexual desire, while women are forbidden to bear children; instead, fetuses are gestated in controlled environments outside the womb. Dr. Paul Verne, a brilliant biologist who discovered the SF virus, prefers to work within the system even though he disapproves of many aspects of the governmental regulations. But then he meets Clara Hastings, a lovely young Bio (a term used to distinguish the new generation of babies from their Utero predecessors) who is working for a secret resistance organization. Clara is assigned to give Paul a message from his former mentor, Joseph Milner. As Paul becomes more attracted to her, he joins the ranks of the subversive group. Naturally, they are hunted by the government, the Mafia, and a host of other factions, and there are separations aplenty before they finally come together to conceive a child--a heretical act that could cost them their lives. Beller is knowledgeable about matters of science, but he is woefully deficient in the tricks of narrative suspense; the novel plods along, weighed down by endless quasi-philosophical musings weakly disguised as conversations. The characters never come to life; many are killed before they have even come to matter to us. And the writing is pedestrian at best; at worst, it is pompous and maudlin. All in all, Sacred Fire is more smoke than flame. (First printing of 50,000) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1559702265
- ISBN 13 9781559702263
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages390
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Sacred Fire, a Medical Thriller
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. When Spermatic Fever, a disease more deadly than AIDS, reaches epidemic proportions, the government establishes dictatorial controls in order to stop the plague Spine is broken at page 252 Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. The binding has separated on one side of the leaves. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Seller Inventory # 123643378
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Sacred Fire
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