Copernick's Rebellion Author: Leo A. Frankowski
	Book Information Publisher: Del Rey Book Type: Paperback Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780345340337 - ISBN-10: 0345340337 Publication Date: 3/12/1987 Book Reviews

In 1940, thirty year-old Martin Guibedo escaped Germany with his only surviving family member, his crippled five year-old nephew Heinrich Copernick. Both men became masters of genetic engineering, Martin specializing in plants, and his nephew Heinrich in animal life forms. Martin designs and freely distributes his proud creation to save the human race, tree houses. These houses are literally trees, genetically modified to have rooms, beds, chairs, cupboards that grow food, and of course, composting toilets. A tiny problem develops when the first version of the house eats its occupants. Oops. Heinrich's big creations are LDUs, sentient worker beasts that look like walking tables with eight eyes; fauns, cute little half girls-half goats who educate and care for human young; and TRACs, large sentient creatures designed to act in the stead of trucks or buses. When the dynamic duo's designs begin to interfere with the status quo of the major political and economic powers of the earth, of course it means war. Heinrich, when not genetically modifying himself into a giant stud-muffin and growing his own Pam-Anderson-like wife, has been preparing for this eventuality. When the two scientists unleash metal-eating microbes, the compost really hits the fan.