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High-Opp
- Author
- Frank Herbert
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 May 2015
- Run Time
- 6 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert's classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.
EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.
Daniel Movius, ex–senior liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls—until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city's underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for a revolution against the corrupt superprivileged—and every revolution needs a leader.
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Details
- Author
- Frank Herbert
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 6 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 May 2015
- ISBN
- 9781483000886
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction
Synopsis
Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert's classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.Daniel Movius, ex–senior liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls—until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city's underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for a revolution against the corrupt superprivileged—and every revolution needs a leader.
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