Catalyst

Look for Catalyst, my new SF Thriller, at amazon.com here, and amazon.ca here, and at Chapters online. Catalyst is also available in multiple ebook formats for readers and mobile at fictionwise.com, as well as for the Kindle.

The year is 2046.

Mutations and MIDS ravage the planet, and the need for body parts and organ transplants escalate. Corbin has created GenOrg, a farm that speed-grows in coffin-like pods thousands of human clones from stolen DNA. One problem: the clones are sentient—their genetic memory has even given them the ability to communicate between themselves.

Ashar, a self-named clone, escapes GenOrg, promising to return to free the others. Running for his life, he is joined by Sara Logan, a geneticist with a guilty secret, and Pietr Ludov, a reporter seeking the ultimate story. They hatch out a plan to bring down Corbin, but it’s not enough for Ashar: he wants the clones free. Struggling with his own genetic identity, Ashar devises his own plan, which will unleash a series of events that will have repercussions for decades.

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, in Lyrical Ballads (1798).

“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.”

James Baldwin (1924-1987) Nobody Knows My Name, 3, 1961