Mortarville

John Smith is a product of mad science. Gestated in an aquarium and born from a spigot, he travels from the secret government laboratories and underground orphanages of his youth to an adult existence too mundane to have been manufactured. But no matter how hard John tries to fit into the "normal" world, his abnormal past continues to carry him back. With a modern flair and a Dickensian touch, Grant Bailie has created an amazing and fantastical work that marries the innocence of Pinocchio with the futuristic horror of Brave New World, as well as exploring the fundamental question of what it means to be human in a world that is losing its humanity.