Dangerous Fiction: Man After Man
Entering junior high from an elementary school is fraught with changes. There's the obvious ones, changing from one school to another, meeting new teachers and learning new subjects. And there's the forgotten changes from youth, like watching a classroom full of your elementary friends dissolve into cliques. One of my favorite changes was access to Dangerous Fiction. Dangerous Fiction is everything that they didn't want you to read in elementary school. If you wanted, you could read books that had, gosh darnit, drugs, violence and sex. Or, if you were feeling ballsy, you could find books with *ideas*. Having a pretty hardcore mother, the forbidden fruit for me was a book called Man After Man. Man After Man was not only a book about evolution ("more like *evil*-ution" the hardcore Christians said), but it was a book about the future evolution of humanity via genetic engineering and bio manipulation. Nearly 8 years later, I can distincly recall that book. The melodramatic tales of an earth populated by dolphin like creatues with faces of weeping men to creatures that lived in Zero G that couldn't reproduce. It chronicals what happens what happens when man leaves earth and what it sees when it returns. The book is worth seeking out. It's filled with fantastic visuals and mad ideas.