New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although the novella version of this shared the 1997 UPC Prize for Science Fiction, which Brian Aldiss says is "the most prestigious science fiction award in all of Europe.") Set in 2099 in Puerto Rico in the Christian American Nation, this is the story of a couple of members of the SPCA - the Suicide Prevention Corps of America - whose job it is to get the bodies of suicides repaired and revived. Dustjacket praise from Robert Sawyer, Connie Willis (who called this 'A frightening, funny future full of religion, politics, TV, and even the occasional miracle.') and others. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-151004722.