Publisher's Synopsis
FREAK-Part Three- EXTINCTION EMBARGOED! Emmy Quatermain, Freak's eldest daughter, accepts she has no choice but to take up her late mother's crusade. Guided by the array of human advisors that Freak had prepared, and with a list of instructions held by the neural Super-Computers, she is expected to be an active figurehead in the tumultuous decades ahead. But within days, Emmy learns that Freak had already instigated the first of several schemes, designed to prevent the inevitable collapse of the human race into anarchy and genocide as a mixture of Climate Change and over-population (and bureaucratic ineptitude) is leading to the financial and social collapse of the planet. Bitter and angry with her mother by being excluded from the initial decision-making, and realising she only has around three months before the entire world tries to kill her for what Freak has just secretly implemented worldwide, Emmy takes advantage of a personal suggestion from her late mother-not be scared to -do your own thing-- by rebelling and amending the directives she has been given. Instead of the eighty-year time span that had been planned to totally change society, Emmy decides to do it in less than fifty years. It will lead to a clash between Emmy's and Freak's goals as their various aides try to reconcile the original and amended plans. Part Three of the Freak Trilogy covers the next hundred years, into the beginning of the Twenty-Second Century- and the technology will advance by centuries as Emmy accelerates everything and everyone to demonstrate her independence from Freak. It will also lead to several fatalities in the Quatermain family as Emmy takes risks her mother would never have countenanced, and world leaders are left in no doubt that Emmy, the brash teenager in a hurry, is very unlike her mother- except for the fact that Emmy's rapidly-developing super-brain possibly matches her mother's own intellect. -Welcome to Freak's World!-