Book description
The year is 2012. The world lies ravaged by biological warfare, its
population decimated by a ferocious genetically-transmitted disease
known as the organ rot. And presiding over the ruins is a
ninety-three-year-old tyrant, preserved in a state of youth by a series
of organ transplants: the self-styled Genghis Mao. Shadrach Mordecai,
Genghis Mao's trusted personal physician, was a vital cog in the great
machine devoted to keeping the ruler alive: linked to him by a network
of electronic implants, Shadrach was able to detect and diagnose the
first signs of malfunction in his lord and master. But close as he was
to the aging dictator, Shadrach could not have known that events would
soon plunge him into a desperate struggle - a struggle in which a
paragon of idealism faced the very incarnation of evil. Robert
Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1935, and is one of the most prolific authors of all time, writing
not just SF & Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number
of pseudonymously published erotica novels. In his first years as a
professional writer, his output regularly exceeded a million words per
year. He has won and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards
dozens of times as both writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA
Grand Master Award. Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are
A Time of Changes, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's
Castle. Robert Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States
with his wife, author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
