Year 200, The (A Legend of the Future)

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Year 200, The (A Legend of the Future)
“The best and most popular novelist of this genre that the Island has ever given.”
—Yoss
“Agustín de Rojas authored a trilogy that pushes the boundaries of our imaginations.”
—SF Signal
The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas'
The Year 200
is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power.
Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”. When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
, the world's fate falls into the hands of two brave women.
Drawing as much from the realms of the adventure novel, spy thriller, and political satire as from hard science fiction, horror, and fantasy,
The Year 200
has been proven prophetic in its consideration of cryogenic freezing, artificial intelligence, and state surveillance, while its advanced weapons and robot assassins exist in an all-too-imaginable future. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas' magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number' really mean?”
Agustín de Rojas (1949-2011) is the patron saint of Cuban science fiction. A professor of the history of theater at the Escuela de Instructores de Arte in Villa Clara, he authored a canonical trilogy of novels consisti
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