Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia
by Mike Resnik
read by Paul Garcia
Unabridged
“Thought-provoking, unquestionably, and Resnick's yarn-spinning is top-notch.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Parts of the book will make you mad, parts will make you sad, and parts will make you proud, but none of the parts will bore you. If only one of Resnick’s books will be remembered by history, this will be the one.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Written by one of science fiction's master storytellers, this collection of award-winning stories tells the haunting and compelling tale of one man's utopia.
In twenty-second-century Kenya, polluted cities flank the once-sacred Mount Kirinyaga, replacing the great animal herds of distant memory. But Koriba, an educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago, and he is determined to recreate it—on the planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.
Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, Koriba leads the colonists as their witch doctor. Only he, unbeknownst to his people, maintains the computer link to the rest of humanity. But the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse from, ironically, humankind's insatiable desire for knowledge. |