The last book in the universe
by W. R. Philbrick · first published 2000
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After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.
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…alteration: http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/thelittlegods.ht... A short description of the pre-birth and post-birth conditioning present in Aldous Huxley's famous Brave New World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Fordism_and_so... The Last Book In The Universe takes a different approach to the issue. A cataclysmic event called The Big Shake destroys society, and only a small group of surviving scientists hidden underground were able to genetically modify their…
on “Modern human brain organization emerged only recently” ↗Exactly. We're heading to a mix of the worst of Brave New World and the worst of 1984. Coupled with generic other dystopian realities, such as The Last Book in the Universe where the elite live in a perfect society separated from the rest, who live in a very dystopian one.
on “The genetics of university success” ↗