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Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this experimentation is done. When the mother backs out at the last minute, Inez is left responsible for the product, which in this case is a baby…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2015The Only Ones: A NovelTwo Dollar Radio · 354 pages · 9781937512279
- Other · English · 2024Only OnesTwo Dollar Radio · 9781953387486
reproductive rightsscience fictiondystopiapost-pandemicMother and childFictionMother and child, fictionNew york (n.y.), fiction







