Frek and the Elixir

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2004
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A humorous flawed utopia set in 3003. An apparent eutopia based on biotechnology is an authoritarian dystopia using memory control. All Earth's plant and animal species have disappeared or been modified out of recognition and replaced with species that could be sold at a profit, and part of the novel is concerned with the attempt to restore them.

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2004

Publisher
Tor
Place Published
New York
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2004 Rucker, Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] (b. 1946). Frek and the Elixir. New York: Tor. Part originally published as “Frek in the Grulloo Woods.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 213-28. PSt

A humorous flawed utopia set in 3003. An apparent eutopia based on biotechnology is an authoritarian dystopia using memory control. All Earth’s plant and animal species have disappeared or been modified out of recognition and replaced with species that could be sold at a profit, and part of the novel is concerned with the attempt to restore them. 

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Part originally published as "Frek in the Grulloo Woods." Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 213-28.

Author Note

(b. 1946)

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