

Living Proof
Author: Kira Peikoff
Narrator: Mia Barron
Unabridged: 13 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/28/2012
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Dystopian
Author: Kira Peikoff
Narrator: Mia Barron
Unabridged: 13 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/28/2012
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Dystopian
Kira Peikoff is the author of Living Proof, No Time to Die, and Die Again Tomorrow. She has a degree in journalism from New York University and a master’s in bioethics from Columbia. By day, she is the editor-in-chief of LeapsMag.com, a digital magazine about innovation and ethics in the life sciences. She has also contributed articles to the science section of the New York Times, Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, and others. Peikoff lives in New Jersey with her husband and young son.
As I am thoroughly familiar with the works of Ayn Rand (philosophical and fiction-wise), as well as Peikoff's writings on Objectivism I was more than eager to read this debut from Kira Peikoff, the daughter. Ayn Rand is a tough act to follow: Period. I consider The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged two......more
This book of suspense cannot be classified only under that one category. In fact, while the setting of this novel is the year 2027, the author has taken serious cultural debates from our present-day society and blended them into a tale that’s not very fantastical, since we're not far off from bringi......more
Disappointing. After reading the blurb, I thought this was going to be a fast paced medical thriller. Instead it was an entire book devoted to the debate over abotion rights and embryonic stem cell research. Religion vs. science.......more
"Living Proof" presents a not-to-distant, and believable, world in which Christian fundamentalists have influenced government policy and created a new dark ages in science--specifically with respect to pregnancy and embryonic stem cell research. There are government agencies that subject each pregna......more
Living Proof is one of the books I've enjoyed most in the last few years. I think the best way to understand it is as a modern and popularly consumable literary novel. It has well-constructed plot and theme. Characterization is pretty tight. Its form should be generally appealing to an American audi......more