Rating: Not rated
Tags: Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It
is the
Brave New World and
1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into
our own future — a future ruled by corporations that
control deadly and powerful forms of mass manipulation. It is
a prediction of what could happen... tomorrow.
The Man Who Melted examines how technology affects
us and changes our morality, and it questions how we might
remain human in an inhuman world. Will the future
disenfranchise or empower the individual? Here you'll find
new forms of sexuality, new perversions, new epiphanies, and
an entirely new form of consciousness. Would you pay to "go down" with the
Titanic? In this dystopia the
Titanic is brought back from the bottom of the sea
and refurbished, only to be sunk again for those who want the
ultimate decadent experience. Some passengers pay to commit
suicide by "going under" with the ship.
The Man Who Melted has been called "one of the
greatest science fiction novels of all time" by
Science Fiction Age and is considered a genre
classic. It is the stunning odyssey of a man searching
through the glittering, apocalyptic landscape of the next
century for a woman lost to him in a worldwide outbreak of
telepathic fear. Here is a terrifying future where people can
gamble away their hearts (and other organs) and
telepathically taste the last flickering thoughts of the
dead.