CYTEEN es ya un hito en la moderna literatura que trata con amenidad temas trascendentes: la clonación, la función de la herencia y de la educación en el desarrollo de una personalidad, etc. Pero CYTEEN es también una brillante especulación sobre cómo los mecanismos de la psicogénesis individual y la manipulación psicológica desembocan inevitablemente en la sociogénesis de la historia. Una idea de alcance parecido a la psicohistoria de Asimov. Sin embargo, Ari Emory (el Hari Seldon de Cherryh) tiene, tal vez, la ventaja de la casi inmortalidad que ofrece la clonación.

Excellent read. ( )

An extremely plausible and well-written book about genetic engineering and the politics involved. The characters are superbly fleshed out, and the technology is matter-of-fact believable. This is the first third of the Hugo Award-winning novel, Cyteen. On to part two... ( )

Never got much more than 50 pages in, and gave up ( )

I read this book at the recommendation of my father. Its an interesting concept -- artificially produced humans have been created to fill gaps in a society far out on the edges of occupied space. However, how are these artificial humans different from "real" humans? How are they different from slaves given they are programmed to perform certain duties with joy and without question?

However, despite the interesting concept, the first two thirds of the book are very slow, and took me ages to read. The last third was much better and I think I'll read the sequels because of that. If the book had stopped after the boring bit, there would be no way I'd read the next book. I think part of the problem is that this book was originally in one volume, instead of the three volume set I own.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/C_J_Cherryh/Cyteen_The_Betrayal.html ( )