Pearson, Mary E. The Fox Inheritance

Pearson, Mary E.  The Fox Inheritance      

Henry Holt/macmillan children's pub group 2011  295p  16.99 978-0-8050-8829-8      ms/hs VG-BN Science fiction   

       After the car accident that supposedly killed them, Locke and Kara‘s minds have been preserved digitally for 260 years.  A mysterious scientist gives them new bodies, but when they realize his intentions, they escape into a bizarre new world.    In this sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Locke and Kara’s minds have been digitally preserved in boxes for 260 years.  When they are “resurrected” by the mysterious Dr. Gatsbro, they become “floor models” for an illegal industry where BioPerfect bodies are paired with digitally preserved minds, allowing individual immortality.  Told from Locke’s point of view, their escape, aided by a half-Bot and the widow of a rebel leader, is taught, fraught with obstacles, a revelation and a journey of discovery.  Thought-provoking and well-crafted dystopian science fiction, although more could have been done to establish the political background of this futuristic, post-civil war United States.  This work stands well on its own, but readers will want to go back and read The Adoration of Jenna Fox to complete the back story.
                  Biotechnology, Ethics   Pat Naismith