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"A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century. The old woman discovers him, once a famous concert violinist, is close to death herself - or a new kind of life she can barely contemplate. Does death really exist at all, or has it finally been obiliterated? And who is this strange man she found - is he a figure returned from her past, a new messiah, or an empty vessel? Is he God, or the Devil?

In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

In 2021, infertility has spread like a plague, and no babies have been born for a quarter of a century anywhere in the inhabited world. The old are driven to despair and suicide, the young are beautiful, violent, and cruel, and the middle-aged try to sustain normality under the rule of the Warden of England. When Theo Faron, an Oxford historian, meets a women who is one of a group challenging the regime, he is drawn into unimaginable horrors.

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.