Holy fire : a novel
(Book)

"Book Club edition"--Front flap of book jacket

Science Fiction Book Club number on back cover of book jacket: 14280.

Jacket art by Eric Dinyer.

Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base publication record,,17181

In the late 21st century, the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to life-extension technology. Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, eking out a meager survival on free government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry.

Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. But a deathbed visit with an ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer bring Mia to an awful revelation. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been bereft of pleasure and adventure. She can do it all over, but she must submit herself to a radical -- and painful -- experimental procedure to make her young again. Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams ... or her undoing.

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