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Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender's Game, teams up with Kathryn H. Kidd to launch an epic science fiction saga of space exploration—and a dramatic conflict between human and nonhuman intelligence.
On the Ark, a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer—or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a "witness," privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists via digital devices implanted behind his eyes.
But Lovelock is something special among witnesses. He's a little smarter than most humans: smart enough to break through some of his conditioning, smart enough to feel the bonds of slavery—and want freedom.
Set against the awesome scope of interstellar space, and like Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide before it, Lovelock probes the provocative interface between humanity and another sentient species.
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“Card and Kidd’s passionate depiction ofLovelock’s plight, as well as their insightful portrayal of the various humancharacters, makes for a gripping read.”
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“A penetrating exploration of inalienable rights in a story that gives ‘humanistic’ beliefs an unusual twist.”
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About the Authors
Orson Scott Card, the author of the New York Times bestseller Ender’s Game, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction. His Ender novels are widely read by adults and younger readers and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy, American-frontier fantasy, biblical novels, poetry, plays, and scripts.
Kathryn H. Kidd cowrote Lovelock with Orson Scott Card; it was intended to be the first in a trilogy, but the next installment, Rasputin, was delayed after Card had a stroke. As a convert to Mormonism, Kidd has also written several comic novels and children’s books, as well as several nonfiction advice books aimed at members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.