Full name: The Child Garden: A Low Comedy

Author: Geoff Ryman Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Romance Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780575076907 0575076909

In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions. But Milena is different: she is resistant to viruses and an incredible musician, one of the most extraordinary women of her age. This is her story and that of her friends, like Lucy the immortal tumour and Joseph the Postman whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Rolfa, genetically engineered as a Polar Bear, whose beautiful singing voice first awakens Milena to the power of music. Similar books: Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner Profundis by Richard Cowper The Adjacent by Christopher Priest New Model Army by Adam Roberts The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells The Consciousness Plague by Paul Levinson Let the Fire Fall by Kate Wilhelm Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld Rebel's Quest by F. M. Busby Wetware by Craig Nova Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card By Light Alone by Adam Roberts One Of Us by Michael Marshall Smith The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer Unconquered Countries by Geoff Ryman Replay by Ken Grimwood Restoree by Anne McCaffrey Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase He, She and It by Marge Piercy