Fourth World Man: A Hypermodern Prometheus - Softcover

Quentin, John

9781916135604: Fourth World Man: A Hypermodern Prometheus

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ISBN 10: 1916135609 ISBN 13: 9781916135604

Publisher: John Quentin, 2019

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Henry Bell has more Neanderthal DNA than any other human for forty-five millennia. This begs two Big Questions: How? and Why?

There may be rational answers to the Big Questions. However, getting to them seems increasingly likely to reveal something amazing but also immoral, unethical and illegal - and up to now safely hidden. Because somehow, somewhere, somebody or something seems to have usurped or disturbed nature and to have redefined the path that human evolution will take. Henry could be the vanguard of a new phase of Humanity’s development or the harbinger of Humanity’s demise. He wants to be neither, but powerful and influential people have other ideas about what purposes he might serve and what uses he may have.

Henry is unique among the world’s billions. To those people who know about him and have an interest in him, it is worth breaking every rule, taking every risk and accepting the consequences to get him and to keep him. As more about him and his background is revealed and realised, the more likely it seems that Henry could be the master key to our future. The struggle to acquire him, the genetic code that defines him and the search for the answers to the Big Questions is a proxy war being fought for the control of human destiny and survival. The outcome of that struggle hangs in the balance. However uncertain Humanity’s future may be, something is beginning to look certain: like Henry himself, it will not be exclusively human.

Fourth World Man is a debut novel by author John Quentin that proffers a vision of our future as prescient and plausible as anything offered by Michael Crichton, John Wyndham, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, HG Wells, Aldous Huxley or George Orwell. Its complex and vibrant strands twist, turn and cross-link in a way reminiscent of DNA itself. Packed with hard science, brutal action, savage humour, sensitive introspection and original vision, it is thrilling, controversial, provocative, informative, shocking, outrageous and deeply disturbing.

For a twenty-first century view of the next twenty-one millennia and beyond, Fourth World Man is the definitive, genre redefining ‘must read’.