MockingbirdThe future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading, and children, a world that people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love