The Strange Case of Cannibals Under Kensington — John F. Faherty

The Strange Case of Cannibals Under Kensington” is John's recently completed Science Fiction novel. This 84,000 word title tells a story of transformation and redemption. The story is set a few decades into a future, in a time and place where the boundaries of technology have out paced the gritty realities of existence. The novel tells the story of two people who in the course of investigating a bizarre set of grizzly murders discover both the mad work of immoral science and a dark governmental shadow conspiracy. In unraveling these mysteries they discover the hidden strengths they'll need not only to blunt the heavy hand of unrestrained power, but also those needed to rebuild their shattered lives. The plot of this novel unfolds in an alternate history set in a future slightly ahead of ours. In this alternate Philadelphia, the stark divisions of class and technology unravel in this world beset by economic upheaval and unrestrained science. There a scientific discovery is made in the field of genetics that sets in motion a terrifying chain of events. From within a city is under siege by a human chimera. Though Daniel Burton that night would lose His life in the icy water, by strange circumstance and misguided science, he would be reborn in the guise of a most base animal. Within this new form there lingered, an unquiet human spirit and a longing he could no longer understand. To which this new life would not reconcile. Unknown to those involved, the unfolding events had not gone unnoticed by certain rather unsavory government agencies. There secret work had proceeded where in a generation of thinking machines had been devised. With the advent of new algorithms these machines had managed to fine tune the science of prediction to produce a clairvoyant peek into the future. Though some success at seeing into future events had been achieved, these seeming feats of mechanical prophecy however remained imperfect. However imperfect, these machines now told a grave story of an inevitable future war. There in their predictions foretold that in this future global conflict that this chimera may have far ranging implications to its inevitable outcome.