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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "The Wise and the Mad (Futanari Saga)" by Francis Porretto
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:44:58 -0500
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"The Wise and the Mad (Futanari Saga)" by Francis Porretto
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/107049948X/

Book number three of a four book science fiction series.  I read the 
well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback that 
the author self published on Amazon in 2019 that I bought new.  I have 
purchased the fourth book in the series and will read it soon.

This may be the weirdest science fiction series that I have ever read. 
And I have read thousands of science fiction and fantasy books over my 
many years.  The series is a very interesting take on what the future 
genetic engineers may bring us.  This is fairly along the same lines as 
the avian children in "When the Wind Blows" by James Patterson, the 
protomolecule in "Leviathan Wakes" by James S. A. Corey, or the 
dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton but uses a more 
shocking mutation to get the author's point across.

This book is set in 2030.  A neurophysiologist who developed a technique 
using nanobots to change a person's desires has been requested by the 
Catholic church to develop a method to tell what a person's sexual 
desire is.  The homosexual community in the USA is very agitated and 
demonstrates in front of the clinic.  A homosexual advocacy group is 
suing the neurophysiologist to get control of her nanobot desire change 
method.  There is no sex in the book but some implied sex.  The sex 
slaver who was cloning Futanaris and raising them to be sex slaves has 
committed ritual suicide in Japan.

In the Futanari Saga Universe, 100 to 200 Futanaris are naturally born 
every year.  They appear to be male at birth but become mostly female at 
puberty.  Many are murdered or ostracized by their families.  The 
author's definition of a Futanari is female appearance, female size, and 
XX chromosomes with male genitals instead of female genitals.  Yeah, you 
read that correctly as this does not match the Wikipedia definition of 
Futanari that I looked up.  But, somebody has cloned Futanaris and 
raised them as incredibly expensive sex slaves.

The author has an active website at:
    http://www.libertystorch.info/

My rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

Lynn