I first read this in my late teens / early twenties. He always wanted me to recognize that the words we chose to use are nothing but common ideas and symbols for large part of society. I was suggested to read this book by an army vet. Like all human stories it is about love and violence, the shaping of courage, the anvil of the heart.Īny interesting take on the dystopian future. It tells of Winslow Rafferty, and the training. So how does on pass the time while waiting for extinction?Īnvil of the Heart is the story of one man testing the limits of human potential. He is an anachronism, a relative moron in a world of genius. He is an encyclopedist working on a summation of the old race history which the new people will file away and probably forget. John Cunningham has two genetically altered children, both far more intelligent than he, and a wife addicted to bobcap orgasms and asperum. There are those who might rebel, yet it is hard rebelling against one’s own children. Entertainment deemed appropriate for the vulgar passions of the old race ranges from the orgy channel to the Roaster Toaster Hour. Housing is overcrowded travel restricted and the police exist only to protect the new people and their enclaves. With the factories automated there are millions of the old race unemployed and living on the dole. No longer could parents doom their own children to second-class citizenship just because the results seemed strange and unfamiliar. Half a century later an amendment to the Constitution was passed safeguarding the rights of each child to this full potential. Cunningham is a Homo sapiens, a member of the old race.Īt the turn of the century, the genetic engineers were able to create a new version of humankind, a new race of highly intelligent, unemotional, non-violent, rational beings. It is the year 2057 and John Cunningham’s generation is the last of its kind.
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