Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution, 1997

Heard, Gerald

Published by Cassell and Company, London, 1948

About this Item

16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full blue cloth. 256 pp. Spine slightly tilted. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, a few spots of staining to spine. Foxing to edges of text block, turn-ins, and endpapers. Dust jacket is edge worn, chipped to spine ends and corners, stained to rear cover, offsetting from tape to spine head. This novel from Gerald Heard is a subtle mixture of philosophic and adventure novel cast in the future. The world of 1997 is held in the grip of a benevolent dictator who runs it, willy nilly, for its own good with the full measure of aid and control which science by then can afford. Yet to every dictator there will always be opposition - an opposition driven, in this case, literally underground, and organized as ruthlessly as the world of light despotically driven forward overhead. A willing victim is selected by the dictator of darkness who shall assume the habits and physical characteristics of the upper world's ruler through rigorous training and extreme grafting operations so painful as to require the greatest fortitude for their endurance. Mr. Heard traces the fate which awaits this victim once he is ready to ascend into the light and has become the double, the doppelganger, of the upper world's dictator.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution, 1997
• Publisher: Cassell and Company, London
• Publication Date: 1948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Fiction