Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis
Title | Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis |
Year for Search | 1978 |
Authors | Aldiss, Brian [Wilson](1925-2017) |
Date Published | 1978 |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists. |
Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (1925-2017) |
Full Text | 1978 Aldiss, Brian [Wilson] (1925-2017). Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis. London: Jonathan Cape. U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled “Enemies of the System” was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65. PSt Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin’s director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists. |