These Savage Futurians

Philip E. High

Language: English

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Publisher: Ace Books

Published: Jan 2, 1967

Magazine: These Savage Futurians / The Double Invaders

Description:

This book has haunted me for 27 years. Now thanks to a reprint I was able to read it again. For a book originally published in 1967 it has a remarkable number of SCIFI themes included into one story. Civilization is destroyed by planned obsolescence, the hero creates micro machines to destroy a virus (nanotech in 1967), and a forgetful scientist who forgets to shut off an experiment and accidentally creates a microbial civilization. 

 The book's hero is an inventive genus raised in a society where inventive genius is taboo. He escapes to an enclave of scientist poising as primitives. He's first exposure to technology is a simple crossbow which he modifies into a fully automatic weapon, and then they educated him. This book's charm is due, not to writing skill or characterizations but, to it's raw unbridled imagination. 

Please ignore the title and short blurp on the cover as they have absolutely nothing to do with the story. This was quite common in the 60's especially in ACE doubles (The format the story was originally published in).