Melusine decides to make love potions, but she’d better be careful: One too many drops of libidinous toad’s saliva and the decoction will be explosive; minus three hairs off an enamoured bat and the charming prince will become a hideous monster.
Melusine, the young witch-in-training, divides her time between studying at the sorcery school and working au pair at the local vampire’s castle. That’s a lot of pressure, and she needs some distractions and fun too. So, what better way to take your mind off things than a good old-fashioned session of story telling with your friends? Dragons, enchanters, princes and princesses all get the fairy tale treatment – except, well, Melusine’s no fairy…
When an Aryan baby is born to a Muslim woman living in Copenhagen, her husband's family shuns her. But DNA tests prove Sorraya's fidelity. And she is just the first in what soon becomes a rash of similar cases across Europe, threatening widespread social change even as they ignite passions in immigrant communities and incite familiar racial hatreds. What mysterious conspiracy connects a retrovirus, a young slacker biogeneticist, a former punkette, a dogged reporter, and pharmaceutical giant Keoxis? Clarke delivers a contemplative slice of near-future science fiction paced like a thriller but full of probing questions about our prejudices.
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