That's it! I ended up buying it! And yet, I had not really sold me the cover ... signed Manchu, though ... But this book would be a safe bet when it was published, on Zanzibar has not got the least coveted Hugo Award in the United States and the Apollo prices in France! But if this book universe is indeed a classic among classics, reading none the less difficult, and its size (nearly 700 pages) has nothing to do with it! First, history. The adventure of a small country, Béninia, and a large economic and scientific project, the possibility for each of its inhabitants to develop more healthy children but above all more intelligent than in most other countries. This announcement is Sugaiguntung THE universally recognized as the greatest scientific genius of all time who made it. And that is the craze! As elsewhere, the reign Eugenie and that does not have a blank genotype of any congenital defect (color blindness, phenylketonuria ...) is condemned not to have children ... at least legally. But this announcement does she not be a hoax globally? As we can see, the story is already not easy! Then the style: a resolutely innovative style, as evidenced by the very first pages of the book. Kind of newscast, radiophone, holography, we are literally overwhelmed with information of all kinds, in a futuristic jargon, on topics sensitive to make hair stand: Shalmaneser, the computer giant bathed in the liquid helium would it finally conscious? Will he still countries where it is still possible for couples to give birth to handicapped? All rantings of Chad Mulligan in his glossary Délinquescence they are pure twaddle or the result of the further insights? Finally, the characters. There are many, difficult to define, at least initially, the main characters are not standing out at first secondary characters. Finally, a book, certainly innovative, amazing by its richness and complexity, but you must follow a single line with all the attention of the world ... those who do not think it happen refrain!
