Mockingbird

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

"Set in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), a haunting, dystopian vision of humanity and its last hope for survival from the bestselling author of The Queen's Gambit In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them fr