Green Eyes (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Lucius Shepard
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The present or the near future
- Setting: Louisiana
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Love or romance, Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Death or dying, Louisiana, Zombies or living dead
- Locales: Louisiana
The Plot
A research facility at Tulane University is conducting studies using recent corpses and dirt taken from a slave graveyard where, presumably, the bodies interacted with the soil. The research is an attempt to create a Bacterially Induced Artificial Personality—a zombie. Zombies never have the personality of the person who died; they are helped by their therapist to realize and explain who they are. This help almost inevitably involves sex. The reanimated are all men, and therapists are chosen in part for their beauty.
Jocundra Verret, a therapist who studied...
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