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The Good Humor Man, or, Calore 3501

✍ Scribed by Fox, Andrew

Book ID: 109002433
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 298 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781892391858

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In this satiric romp inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 , set in 2041, government-sanctioned vigilantes--the Good Humor Men--ruthlessly patrol the streets, immolating all fattening food products as illegal contraband. A pound of real chocolate is worth more on the black market than a kilo of cocaine. Evil "nutraceutical" company MannaSantos controls the food market with genetically modified products, such as "Leanie Lean" meats. But the craze for svelte healthfulness has reached a critical turning point, as a mysterious wasting plague threatens to starve all of humanity.
A lone ex-plastic surgeon and founding Good Humor Man, whose father performed a secret liposuction surgery on Elvis Presley, holds the key to humanity's future. In a mad dash to retrieve his family heirloom--the mortal remains of the King's belly fat--Dr. Louis Shmalzberg becomes entangled with a civil servant of questionable motives, an acquisitive assassin from a...

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