Featured Author Vaughn Whitlock Published Titles Human Stock Human Stock How will cloning affect humanity? HUMAN STOCK is a story of survival amidst world devastation, contrived evolution through evil ambition and impossible love. Will men become obsolete? It is the year 2030. A community in Darwin has survived worldwide nuclear destruction, only to be ruthlessly dominated by women who use cloning as the preferred means of human reproduction. The women, seeking absolute power, manipulate DNA to perfect laboratory-made cloned human products devoid of love or soul. So begins the evolution of life without sex. Benjamin continues to escape their net, but lives in fear as he tries to foil their plans. Can he stop them before they change humanity forever? Will his love for two women be exposed? How can the three of them continue to exist outside the 'system'? Vaughan Whitlock keeps tension high as he leads the reader through the horrors of believable consequences of cloning to a surprising and powerful end. '...thought-provoking... gives the reader a frightening insight into what could happen to the world as we know it.'   John Morrow's Pick of the Week Vaughn Whitlock Vaughan was born in 1950, the second of three boys. He was raised on the north shore of Auckland, New Zealand, attended Takapuna Grammar School and graduated with a civil engineering degree from Auckland University. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Vaughan worked on large earth dam construction and water supply projects with Auckland Regional Authority and with Worley Consultants as Resident Engineer on hydroelectric construction. Vaughan spent two-and-a-half years in Papua New Guinea as Chief Engineer for the National Housing Commission, and in 1987 immigrated to Australia. He worked in Canberra then Darwin. In 1989 he was part of an aid group to Swaziland, developing a water resources computer model and related software. Today Vaughan runs the North Squash Centre in Mackay, Queensland, with his second wife, Bernadetha. Vaughan draws on his experience in developing countries, a sense of humour and a long term interest in observing people to present his first novel HUMAN STOCK.