Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty, and warhave been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given menand women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They shouldall have been very happy. But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culminationof a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes.Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And thisultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, ...
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Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty, and warhave been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given menand women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They shouldall have been very happy. But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culminationof a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes.Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And thisultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has nointention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is aboutto become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia notjust boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to beDone, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge!
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Considering the date on which this book was published, Heinlein was very much ahead of his time. The book is both entertaining and should be tantalizing to budding geneticists...
