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Title: The Last Underclass
Author: Dean Warren
Narrator: Bill Forchion
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-15
Publisher: Dean Warren
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
By 2152, wise computers have replaced middle managers, service workers, and many professionals. Billions overcrowd the planet; the less clever subsist on welfare. Galactic settlement beckons but ruling "Achievers" say the incompetent poor need not apply. "Quiet" Griffin, a ghetto "Welfie", opposes them and learns that upper-class geneticists breed "improved" humans from the poor, then transplant aged personalities into young bodies. How can Quiet save humanity from genocide and unprincipled genetic tampering?
Members Reviews:
A fascinating science fiction story
Dean Warren has written a fascinating science fiction story that moves through time and space at lightning speed. Mixing fact and fiction he leads us through the world as it is in the year 2152. The planet is ruled by an upperclass known as "Achievers" and computers have replaced middle class workers and many professionals. The poor and incompetent are called "Welfies" who must exist in a substandard living condition-ghetto style,with no hope for the future. They survive on the crumbs tossed to them from their over-bearing leaders who consider them worthless, excess baggage and do everything they can to exterminate them.
A young "Welfie" named Quiet is the hero of the tale. He is smart, compassionate, and determined to find an answer that will lead his people to the better life they deserve. A situation develops that gives Quiet the chance to save the Starman, who leads the "Achievers", and his family from harm. In doing this he is given the opportunity to go to school and mix wih the "Achievers." While there he becomes known for his academic achievments and continues to advance himself further into the upperclass, all the while looking for answers to his quest to save the underclass in which he was born.
The planet has become severely overpopulated and the upperclass put fertility depressants in the "Welfies" water supply to limit their ability to have children. Quiet also learns that geneticists are creating "improved" humans by using young "Welfie" bodies to implant aged "Achievers" brains in, hoping to provide them with eternal life and help rid them of the underclass at the same time.
How Quiet manages to deal with the problems between the upper and lower class societies, expose the horrors caused by the power -crazed scientists and find a solution for his "Welfies" is quite a story.With all the studies today on cloning and DNA tampering this book is certainly thought provoking as well as entertaining reading.
Science Truth Not Fiction!
Mr. Warren has the uncanny ability to think and work in a continuum of scientific facts taken to the next logical step. There is no fiction in a two class society; we have it throughout most of the world now! It is a fact that scientific data reaches the general public 8-10 years after the original research has been done. In The Last Underclass,there is a clear well-thought out, message that we are here but no leader will try to change the status quo.It is not to his advantage! As long as the masses remain ignorant of the truth ("fiction"),epidemics,like AIDS,will continue to affect minorities, until the"Acheivers" are in control of the worlds population.I was one of Dean's "welfies" who escaped into the "Acheivers class through a fluke in the system- knowledge.