The Eyes of Heisenberg, Frank Herbert
The Eyes of Heisenberg, Frank Herbert
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The Eyes of Heisenberg

Author: Frank Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/17/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons...only no one ever requested it.

When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law, when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State's special vat—the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.

For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers' decrees...and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race.

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's speculative fictions have taken the grand themes and questions of politics, ecology, overpopulation, and much more and applied them to the human drama. His most popular works are the well-known Dune books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and the extraordinary bestseller God Emperor of Dune. He wrote more than twenty other works of fiction and nonfiction, including a book on home computers, before his death in 1986.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on July 03, 2015

In this obscure science-fiction novel, written at about the same time as Dune, Frank Herbert asks a question which has occupied surprisingly few SF writers: if you were immortal, what would you actually do? His answer, which will appeal to many people on this site, is more or less that you would cat......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 24, 2023

There was a time when if you had asked me, "who is your favorite science fiction author?" I would have answered : "Frank Herbert." That was because I was reading Herbert's DUNE series. But there were other books by Herbert which I did not get to, such as this one, "The Eyes of Heisenberg", published......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on November 25, 2015

-Ni sí ni no, ni todo lo contrario.- Género. Ciencia-Ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. En una sociedad con tensiones entre Folks, Optimen y Cyborgs, el señor y la señora Durant, Folks ellos mismos y con permiso para reproducirse, van a la clínica reproductiva del doctor Thei Svengaard y exigen su derecho le......more

Goodreads review by Carl on March 16, 2013

Set in the far future in a time when Optimen lived for tens of thousand of years, The Eyes of Heisenberg is kind of like 1984 on Steroids. In this society, the rulers only allow certain people to procreate, and when they do so, genetic engineers manipulate the embryo seeking to make these superhuman......more

Goodreads review by Dane on January 17, 2021

There’s good and bad to this book, but for the most part it was just a little bit of a letdown. I think the problem is that when reading sci-fi, I tend to enjoy myself if the technology is fascinating, the ideas are profound or the characters are relatable. Here, I didn’t get any of that. Still, Herb......more