Search Results: Titles starting with D from Passenger Books

Howard Hilton Spellman, Member of the New York Bar, his classic work on the presentation of direct evidence to the jury, provides the strategies and arguments necessary to convince a court or jury that a lawyer's case is just therefore he should prevail.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future where all work is performed by robots and androids, citizens are expected to spend their entire existance (which will last however long they want it to) sampling meaningless experiences and having fun.
The predominiately female heroine (you can change your sex, body, appearance, etc. anytime you choose to) finds herself bored and searches for something that will give her life meaning. In the process, her discontent manages to alienate her from society, with its extremely rigid unwritten rules of behavior underlying an "anything goes" appearance.
The robots (who are programmed to serve humanity's needs) are at first confused by her desire to do something important and ultimately threatened by her antisocial behavior. In the end, our heroine (we never learn her name) succeeds in escaping the sterile environment of the mega-city and recreates a new world for herself in the process. Tanith Lee (an all-time favorite author) offers a scathing satire of today's emphasis on… Read More