"'You can't study the human mind without studying the body too. What's he done? Are you the mutant they're always speculating about? Did Dr. Tighe create or find homo superior?'"
-"The Sensitive Man," VII, p. 143.
Studying society is very different from studying individual minds and bodies but these guys do both.
"Un-Man" and "The Sensitive Man" could each have been the opening installment or origin story for an open-ended series. The Un-Man series would be able to feature different members of the Brotherhood, alone or in teams. There could be different Sensitive Men and a regular Un-Men/Sensitive Men team-up/crossover. A team of writers could be commissioned to work on such series while the creator, Poul Anderson, continued to extend the future history series within which these two teams inhabit just one period. Superheroes are an off-shoot of sf. Their prototype was extraterrestrial. His successors include mutants.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I would have liked the UN-Men and Sensitive Men combating more intelligent, able, and plausible enemies! Their antagonists in "UN-Man," "The Sensitive Man, and "The Big Rain," etc., are not very satisfactory.
Ad astra! Sean
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