All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Never an Episode of Star Trek...

... And why not? Consciousness creates itself according to Heinlein. Forget about the mythical divine genesis stuff or that Darwinian evolution bunk. This is the real thing, the theory with oomph: time travel comes with the Homo sapiens territory, at least for the ones who can hack it (it’s the rest who are zombies). The perks are pretty spectacular - picking when and where you’re born for a start. And none of the neurotic consequences of family life. Literally no one to blame but yourself. Puts an entirely new perspective on the idea of solitary sex. Must have knocked their socks off in 1959. It’s still a bit of a whiz-bang. That’s probably why not.

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