Dawn of the Demi-Gods
An SF Classic of Genetic Engineering and Nanotechnology (The Demi-Gods Saga)
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J T Farrell
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Were the new men and women human or monster?
Brought back to life via vitaplasm, did they have souls? Or were they somehow less than human, people minus X?
Here's what Amazing Stories had to say about this moving, thoughtful, highly-prophetic novel of the future by three-time Nebula nominee Raymond Z. Gallun: "This is a novel with a cosmic theme that has always been of interest to all people at all times: the process of regeneration and recreation. Through vitaplasm innocent victims of disaster are restored almost to their own selves.... Then humans begin to realize that the artificial people are their superiors in every respect. Mob feeling changes Mitchell Prell, one of vitaplasm's inventors, into a scapegoat and forces him to flee the human community. Ed Dukas, his nephew, and Ed's wife, Barbara, try to use reason to combat the mounting hysteria which threatens to explode into a war of annihilation. When failure seems near, Ed, Barbara and Prell sacrifice their humanity by becoming artificial people in order to function more effectively. ...a suspenseful plot, unusual characterizations, relevant soul-searching on the place of scientific advances in everyday life."
The Detroit Times raved that, "Gallun depicts scientific experiments on the Moon…an explosion that sears Earth…restoring persons through personality records…a struggle between restored people and natural humanity…life on the asteroids…thought reading machines…a journey to Mars…a starship expedition to Sirius… [Dawn of the Demi-Gods] is packed with action scientific style." (Also published as People Minus X, but Dawn of the Demi-Gods is the author's preferred title.)
Raymond Z. Gallun (1911-94) began writing science fiction in 1929, produced his first acknowledged classic, the much anthologized Old Faithful, in 1934, stopped writing in the 1950s and then returned for a triumphant last decade in the mid-1970s-80s, that would see him nominated three times for the Nebula Award.
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- julian tarasiuk
- 03-08-25
Enjoyable
Great book it's ok but it could be better. The storyline is easy to follow but just couldn't get into the book.
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Good story
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- Joe Henson
- 09-05-20
Rambled on
It was a good story but could have gone deeper and had a more of a thriller story. More philosophical and tying to evoke thoughts.
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- Michael Gano
- 05-19-21
Very Good
So when I got this book I didn't read anything about it, so it wasn't what I thought it would be, but with that being said it turned out to be a very well written book that I throughly enjoyed.
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- Georgia McNabb
- 01-25-21
Really Did NOT like this Story!
In the future technology gotten so much further and man kind nearly destroyed itself. Then Recordings of people memories or memories of people who knew them are recorded and downloaded into either android bodies or a new type of plasma skin bodies. Now there is a War developing btw the 2 types.
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