''Originator'' is a pair of young adult

dystopian A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

novels by Claire Carmichael that was published between 1998 and 1999. The first book, ''Originator'', was published on September 1, 1998 by Random House. The second, ''Fabricant'', was released the following year on October 1.

Synopsis

The series follows Adam and Callie, two teenagers growing up in a dystopian society where various plagues have killed off a large portion of humanity. The resulting chaos stemming from the apocalyptic plagues have prompted the survivors to rank everyone in one of three categories: Leet, Mid, or Sub. Adam and Callie are part of the upper tier, the Leets, and live a relatively easy lifestyle that is threatened when their father Professor Richard Stillman is implicated with the crime of human cloning and

eugenics Eugenics ( ; ) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or ...

Reception

'' AudioFile'' praised Francis Greenslade's narration of both books, as they felt that he added to the work as a whole.

References

External links

Review from the NSWAGTC
1999 science fiction novels Utopian novels {{1990s-specf-novel-stub