Gary - Softcover

Morrison, J. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194524741X ISBN 13: 9781945247415

Publisher: Thurston Howl Publications, 2018

Synopsis

It’s predictable that, when a progressive Texas county school board announces gender-neutral homecoming court elections, teenagers will be, well, teenagers. Gary Greene, a student with gender preference uncertainty, has been miraculously cured of leukemia, thanks to nanoscale robots injected into his bloodstream. When he returns to school, he is greeted with a mixture of sympathy and ridicule, which manifests as a humiliating hazing incident in the boys' locker room. Mysteriously, the boys bullying Gary suffer “burns” when the tiny robots in his blood react in defense of their host. Gary learns that there is a relationship between his emotions and the behavior of the nanites coursing through his blood. Through experimentation, he realizes the nanites make a binary “friend or foe” determination about foreign DNA, attacking only the cells they sense as threatening. Gary determines to train the nanites to keep them from hurting other people, but he can’t control them when things go awry at the homecoming dance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thurston Howl Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194524741X
• ISBN 13: 9781945247415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320