Mockingbird

Name: Mockingbird
Author: Walter Tevis

1980 novel by Walter Tevis

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Author: Walter Tevis
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-07-17
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Released: January 1980
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Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Genre: science fiction

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Mockingbird is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Walter Tevis. Set chiefly in a depopulated twenty-fifth-century New York City, the novel depicts a society in which robots administer human life, drugs and television pacify the population, and reading has largely disappeared. The story follows Robert Spofforth, a long-lived android who wants to die, and Paul Bentley and Mary Lou Borne, two humans whose rediscovery of reading and personal attachment brings them into conflict with the social order.

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Narrative location: New York City
Country of origin: United States
Cover art by: Fred Marcellino
Title: Mockingbirdii
Mockingbird
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-07-17
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Die Letzten der Menschheit
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Has version, edition or translation: Mockingbird language: English
Mockingbird released: May 10, 2022 · publisher: Vintage Books · distribution format: paperback
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-06-19
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Nominations: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel(1981)
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Nebula Award for Best Novel(1981)
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