'Oh brave new world that has such bastards in it.' After forty years in space the first interstellar expedition comes home, and the twentieth century confronts the twenty-first—an Earth struggling for recovery from the Collapse of the 1990s, a youth growing up with new creeds and new ethics, taught to think straight and clearly, to do what is necessary, not what is merciful, what is sensible, not what is enjoyable. In their short history they have already had one monstrous 'final solution'.
To Commander Raft they are children hopelessly entangled in the complications of ethics and politics; they need a father and who better than a starman with all the universe in his head? To the psychiatrist Lindley, they are pathetically almost touchingly naive—until he begins to suspect they may be monsters. To themselves they are pioneers of a new history, unsullied by the evasions and dishonesties of the past.
And behind the scenes the geneticists of Gangoil, untroubled by ethical speculations, are busy creating Ultimate Man from clone-tissue taken forty years earlier.
Gripping, stimulating, immensely impressive in its narrative drive and its imaginative range and power, Beloved Son is one of the most remarkable science fiction debuts of recent years. George Turner is a major talent.
- Autor: George Turner
- Kategoria: fantastyka, fantasy, science fiction
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 0571111521
- Data wydania: 1978-01-01
- Liczba stron: 375
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Faber and Faber
