Specimen Days Condition:Good or even prevent

or even prevent

and couldn't get a date for love or money

treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs

LOOKING FOR JJ

and tales whose only purpose is to entertain

Specimen Days Condition:Good or even preventLucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form Specimen Days. The first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was devoured by the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies two strange beings into the future. A novel of connecting