HighOpp, Frank Herbert
HighOpp, Frank Herbert
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High-Opp

Author: Frank Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/26/2015

Synopsis

Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert's classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.Daniel Movius, ex–senior liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls—until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city's underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for a revolution against the corrupt superprivileged—and every revolution needs a leader.

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert (1920–1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of “Dune World” and “The Prophet of Dune” in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chantal on June 11, 2012

It is surprising and fantastic when a dystopian novel written decades ago seems to be in tune with what is currently happening in the world, be it the voyeuristic and controlling government in “1984”, or the entertainment-drugged masses, bred to their social status in “Brave New World”. “High-Opp” o......more

Goodreads review by Alyssia on January 09, 2019

If I had not known that this was written the better part of half a century ago before I started, I would have assumed it to be relatively contemporary. The language use flows naturally, suggesting that Herbert was writing beyond his era and perhaps explaining why he couldnt get it published at the t......more

Goodreads review by Shhhhh on May 20, 2018

I don't know if this was written before Dune but I hear resonances of it in this work. Great book. 1984 meets Dune would be a very, very good representation of this story.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on September 18, 2013

I gave this an average rating because it's obviously not Herbert's best work and I'm dubious of it origin. I enjoyed it, but other fans of Frank Herbert may not. This was a previously unpublished novel. Probably what Stephen King would call a "trunk book". Something set aside for later rework or aban......more

Goodreads review by Simon on July 12, 2013

By 'never before published' what I think they mean is 'half finished manuscript that Frank Herbert started working on very early in his career and then gave up on and buried in a drawer somewhere because he figured it just wasn't good enough, until his son came along and published every scrap of pap......more

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