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Odd John : a story between jest and e[a]rnest. Introduction by Leslie Fiedler

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  • "The present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/enthralls a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is not alone; there are other specimens of Homo Superior around the world. He sets out to search and recruit them for a unique project: establishing a Colony of his kind. Stapledon use the different anecdotes to illustrate his cogitations about human kind, religion, politic, justice, ethic and more, many more transcendental subjects. --Maximiliano F. Yofre at Amazon.com."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Novels"
  • "Science fiction"

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  • "Odd John : a story between jest and e[a]rnest. Introduction by Leslie Fiedler"@en
  • "Odd John : a story between jest and earnest"
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  • "Odd John a story between jest and earnest"
  • "Odd John : A story between jest and earnest"
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  • "Odd John; a story between jest and earnest"

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