Maximum Light is a science fiction novel that takes place in the United States about forty years into the future. The book is made up of 3 different intertwining stories about three different main characters: Shana Walders, Nick Clementi and Cameron Atuli.
At the time that the story takes place, humanity's ability to conceive children has been reduced by synthetic endocrine disrupters, pollution and other chemical dangers. Fertility is at an all-time low and human cloning is impossible. Cloned human eggs just divide into thirty cells and then fail to differentiate. They will just keep growing into a mass of undefined cells until they are stopped. Children are scarce and sought-after. They are considered a "natural resource" and are protected fervently.
Shana Walders is a nineteen year old that has just finished her national service and has no family and no where to go. On her la
Cameron, Shana and Nick now have to go find out what happened to Cameron, why it happened, and how they can prevent this from happening to others. They find out the reason those chimpanzees were "vivifactured" was because of the fertility crisis. Because such an astoundingly large percentage of the population was infertile and craved children and because of the difficulty in adoption. Many people were willing to lavish their parental frustration on a pet, or a pet that when dressed in human clothes, looked just like a baby!
When Shana and Cameron meet, she realized that Cameron's face is the face that she saw on the chimps. They both turn to nick for help and realize that not only did the mysterious perpetrators take Cameron Atuli's face; they took his testicles as well. After a medical examination they realize that Cameron was castrated (before his memory was erased) and fitted wi
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