TY - BOOK ID - 77923239 TI - The pet thief PY - 2013 SN - 1573668397 9781573668392 1573661716 PB - Tuscaloosa : FC2, DB - UniCat KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Science fiction. KW - Science KW - Science stories KW - Fiction KW - Future, The, in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77923239 AB - The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world. When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically-for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective.Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, "cat people," who ER -