ABE: Inter Ice Age 4 *Bestseller! ABE:进入冰河时代(ISBN=9784805302
Inter Ice age 4,written in l958 and set farin the future,is one of Kobo Abe’S most radical works,eml610yingthe devices of science fiction to project his prescient moralconcerns about private ver-SUS cgrporate destiny. The polar ice caps have begun tOmelt,threatening to submerge the continents and destroy theirinhabitants.A secret and illegal group of scientists have begunwork on a daring plan tO save ter-restrial life through the use ofcontrolled biological mutation on animals and——eVen moredaringly--the human fetus.The ulti-mate.goal is the creation of anunderwater nation that will sur-vive the destruction ofJapan by atidal wave.Dr.Katsumi,the protagonist,is drawn into this conspiracyagainst his will,through his own creation of an advancedinformation system.Forced to choose between desire for the survivalof the human race and horror of the ruthless and manipulative meansneces-salt for this end,his choices and actions are further cloudedby the discovery that his ow
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