-Ni sí ni no, ni todo lo contrario.-

Género. Ciencia-Ficción.

Lo que nos cuenta. En una sociedad con tensiones entre Folks, Optimen y Cyborgs, el señor y la señora Durant, Folks ellos mismos y con permiso para reproducirse, van a la clínica reproductiva del doctor Thei Svengaard y exigen su derecho legal a la vigilancia del proceso al que será sometido su óvulo fecundado. Molesto pero obligado, Svengaard comienza su trabajo antes de que llegue el experto designado para ayudarle, Potter, y descubre que la mórula presenta una particularidad que sólo se ha documentado otras ocho veces: es resistente.

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*Unfinished*

Not, as I'd half-hoped, a jolly jaunt about Walter White visiting the opticians, but a deeply, DEEPLY boring tome about eugenics. I've never found myself endeared to Herbert, thanks to the homophobic and fat-shaming tendencies he displays in Dune. This book, with its endless techno-babble, flat characters and stilted dialogue, did little to change my opinion and got chucked on the charity pile when I was one third of the way in.

So this being the only novel outside of the dune series that I have read of Frank Herberts I’m surprised at the length of the book. I felt as though when I first started reading that the book had started in the middle. Like where is the first half of the book ? Lol. But even though it was short I loved the story.

Great old-fashioned sf, published 1966 but following the traditions of the Golden Age. The prolific use of biomechanical/pharmacological jargon wonderfully juxtaposes the harsh, strictly-controlled world of the Optimen with the very human desires of the Parents Underground. I would have liked to see more of the richly-crafted world, more of the Optimen's daily lives: how does a fifty thousand-year-old person spend their time? It's a short read though, so this lack of depth and detail is excusable. It's also a very fun read.

3/10. Media de los 9 libros leídos del autor : 7/10.

A ver, de Frank Herbert hay que leerse Dune, sí o sí. Al menos el primero de la saga (me gustaron casi todos, conste). ¿Y el resto?. Pues bien, pero no esperéis un nivelazo.
Este es e los que bajan el nivel con ganas

Um, wow. Old sci-fi has its charms sometimes. This is a bit of Brave New World, Bladerunner and there's some bit about the perfect overlords that I just don't recognize but I bet it's a trope.

For me, this book was a kick for two reasons. First, it's a 1960's vision of genetic engineering, and as a biologist I found the differences (and similarities) to modern molecular biology entertaining. Second, TEOH is another fine example of a theme that runs through nearly all of Herbert's work: what makes humans human? Are 40,000-year-old immortal product of genetic manipulation human? What happens when they guide the whole world in their favor and the word 'death' is forbidden?

Fun, fun read.

I really enjoyed this. Short but sweet. Interesting ideas. Thought provoking in terms of genetic engineering.

This was an interesting book, fairly 1 dimensional in the story line but it allows the author to put a lot of emphasis on this particular message. There was one section I felt was relevant to today's situation with the NSA but judge for yourself: "Many places are safe. They merely pretend to supersensual perception. Their real powers lie in machines and instruments, the secret surveillance. But machines and instruments can be twisted to other purposes. And the Optimen depend on Folk to do their violence."

This is classic Herbert, in abbreviated form. This book is similar to his other works, although much smaller in scope. Herbert tackles a major theme of God Emporer of Dune and Heretics of Dune here: millenial forced-peace and the inherent problems that come along with tyrranical pacifism. The idea was presented in a very roundabout way, what was important in the early chapters was just minutiae at the end, so there was a little falling out. But overall this was a good one.

There was a time when if you had asked me, "who is your favorite science fiction author?" I would have answered : "Frank Herbert." That was because I was reading Herbert's DUNE series. But there were other books by Herbert which I did not get to, such as this one, "The Eyes of Heisenberg", published in 1966, concerning a future society in which humans are bioengineered. I only give it *** because I don't think the story--and the future world-- was developed very well. The Optimen have been engineered to be the superhumans, but they seem to be running the world very ineffectively. There are Cyborgs who are operating against them as well as a Parents' Underground that the "supermen" can't handle very well. The characters (whom I could not keep straight!) were not developed in this story anywhere nearly as well as the characters in the DUNE series.
Herbert remains one of my favorite authors. Born in Washington State in 1920, he brought his interests in psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and religion into his DUNE series. Indeed, the original "Dune" is considered ecological science fiction, actually popularizing the term "ecology." I think a lot of my interest in the environment goes back to that book.
Frank Herbert died in 1986.

This feels like a trial run of ideas Herbert would develop more fully in God Emperor. It’s not as great as that novel but still quite interesting