Inky

Inky is a riveting work of speculative fiction that imagines just what might happen if applied science truly found itself freed from the laboratory and let loose in the the real world. The labs in question, headed by Paul Duggin and Abe Zifkin at the University of California, Berkely, are at work on a non-addictive alternative to Morphine to assist the recovery of wounded service personnel. It makes for a perilous web of intrigue when the transition of the labs producing and testing Enkephalin to private hands assumes aspects of opeing Pandora's Box, even as a lab rat named George steals away undetected into the outside world With echoes of the science fiction of Theodore Stugeon, Inky imagines scenarios that are simultaneously astonishing and frightening, as a humane initiative intended to enhance medical treatment suddenly fuels a furious scramble to control a highly desirable designer drug with an unforeseen side effect askin to extrasensory perception. Inky is a provacative, ultimately hopeful, tale that explores rat problems, human problems, and problems with government, while treading the murky middle ground that lies between good and evil.