The Eyes of Heisenberg

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

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

-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

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

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