Utopia

About the Book

Robert Digby, a young engineer, manages a factory manufacturing robots. Searching for a higher level of artificial intelligence he meets Carla Rossi who has care of four illegally cloned human brains. The pair save the brains from destruction and equip them with robot bodies. The free brains have no organs for sight hearing or speech and develop communications with each other and with Carla by mental telepathy. Robert and Carla adapt or invent mechanical and electronic systems to provide the free brains for a semblance of human life. It all has to be done in secret. In the process, advances in medical science including the replication of human organs to repair or replace failing natural organs result. One of the four cloned brains bears the genes that produce autism. Another has a penchant for speaking in rhyme a third becomes an accomplished pianist and guitar player. The fourth, Utopia, is a universally loved and vivacious adolescent girl growing up in unnatural circumstances as a fashion model.

About the Author

Keith McNair is a retired civil engineer who commenced the writing of novels a dozen times over a period of fifty years. It wasn’t until age seventy eight that he was able to find the time to finish one. Utopia Book 1 is the first of how many? That depends on how long it takes for him to run out of ideas. He has retired to the Central Coast of New South Wales with his wife of fifty seven years. They are in frequent touch with their three happily married daughters, nine grandchildren and a growing number of greats.