. . "Fiction in English." . . "English fiction." . . . . . "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." . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "Odd John : a story between jest and e[a]rnest. Introduction by Leslie Fiedler"@en . "Odd John : a story between jest and earnest" . . "Odd John : a story between jest and earnest"@en . . . . . . "Novels" . . . . . . . "Odd John a story between jest and earnest"@en . "Odd John a story between jest and earnest" . "Odd John : A story between jest and earnest" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Science fiction" . . . . "Odd John. A story between jest and earnest"@en . . "Odd john" . . "Odd John; a story between jest and earnest" .