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Freaknest is a mutant coming-of-age story set at the end of the world, an end at once cozy with the promise of gene therapy and ultrasmart appliances and horrific in its depiction of Old Testament-style weather convulsions and secret genetic experiments.
In the middle of the next century, police discover a group of neglected and possibly abused children in a London mansion. With nowhere else to put them, the kids are shipped off to the Aiwa-Benz Neural Orientation & Maturation Assessment Lab (aka ABNORMAL) for rehab. After a promising start, X rays show something is growing in the kids' brains, replacing the organic tissue. And it was put there. Are the kids some crackpot's biological Tinkertoys?
For all its surface weirdness,Freaknest is a naïf's tale, in the tradition of an innocent, orphaned Oliver Twist asking for a little more food/love/humanity while being brutalized by a world beyond his comprehension.
Author Lance Olsen is one of those rare birds who is both a lit professor and an honest-to-god writer.Freaknest never falls into the literary trap of taking itself too seriously. Olsen, like Twain and Burroughs, knows that you can attack serious topics in a nonserious way without diminishing their gravity.
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