WHO'S IN YOUR GENES »
Genes are encrypted and hacked in this bio-mystery about the most terrifying conditions of the human body: disease and death - especially when wrought by murder. Set against a forward moving story of a young boy who is a by-product of emerging technology, Clone examines the failure of religion and philosophy to rescue man from his own mortality and questions whether or not science can do any better.
The story of the human body - or any body for that matter - goes back to the explosion of stars; but the first time our story was told dates to some unknown time when man first peered inside the body and questioned it. And here we are, still questioning, though the questions have changed: having unlocked the key to life, what will we do with it? Of course, the answers aren't the same for everyone: Religion is good at hacking into the body's soul, science is learning how to hack the body's source code, while business seeks to brand it with a barcode. Like chemistry, these agendas are compatible in some combinations; but combustible in others. Clone explores the latter. It's a story that begins where business, religion, science and society teeter on the brink of a breakdown; all of which is compressed into a mystery of abduction and the denouement of the body.
Ambition and antipathy, power and pride, faith and faithlessness, love and loss, lust and law and every other human imperfection are all shared by the cast of characters populating the story of Clone. Technology redefines each of their lives, challenging and exacerbating their beliefs, their values and their convictions. But this isn't just their story, it is the story of the human race which has used technology to cure but also conquer. History inevitably repeats itself in the future as emerging technology once again forces the human race to reappraise the meaning and value of being human.
