Nature's Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution

ISBN: 1434435318

Author: Stableford, Brian

Condition: New

Peter Bell the Third, accidentally named from the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is called upon to renew his old friendship with Rowland Usher, who was deliberately named after the protagonist of a story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the new House of Usher that Rowland is growing in the Orinoco Delta, Usher explains the scientific work in genetics that hes doing there to Peter, while they both mourn Rowlands dead twin sister, Magdalen, who has apparently committed suicide for reasons that no one quite understands. As a scientist, Peter is inevitably convinced, when he discovers Magdalens ghost haunting the house, that the haunting can only be figurative and symbolic-but that does not make it any less meaningful, or problematic. A marvelous new novel in this long-running series by a master of biological extrapolation.