Book description
The World Economic Council said the world had become Utopia. There
should be no cause for dissatisfaction. But for those who were still
restless, there was the new mind-stimulating drug R-47. Those who took
R-47 were engaging in a sort of lottery whose rare winners would be
super-geniuses and whose losers might be fit only for asylums. Etter Ho,
whose brother was one of the losers, took the drug on the chance that,
if he won, he could cure his brother. But what he became when he emerged
from the mainlining was something none expected. For he became a menace
to Utopian order, a danger to those who knew him, and the only man who
might, just possibly, diagnose the real illnesses of the world. Gordon
R. Dickson (1923 - 2001) Gordon Rupert Dickson was born in Alberta,
Canada, in 1923 but resided in the United States from the age of
thirteen. Along with Robert A. Heinlein, he is regarded as one of the
fathers of military space opera, his Dorsai! sequence being an early
exemplar of both military SF and Future History. Dickson was one of the
rare breed of authors as well known for his fantasy as his SF - The
Dragon and the George, the first novel in his Dragon Knight sequence,
was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and won the British Fantasy
Award. Dickson's work also won him three Hugos and Nebula. He died in
2001.
