I pulled "World Of Edena" by Mobius off the shelf and read for the first time in 2020.
The guy that did design work for "The Fifth Element", "Heavy Metal", "Alien", "Tron", "Willow", a ton of other cyberpunk books, and the ill-fated Jodorowsky's "Dune" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsk…
To pull it off the shelf in 2020 and read it was surreal due to some of the themes:
- Citizens are puberty "blocked" at early age.
- Partner selection/procreation is automated by government, no families.
- Citizens get mandated a multitude of unnecessary shots and transplants.
"Polite" members of society (upper class) wear masks that they call their "faces" to protect from "nose fever" which they are deathly afraid of. But "nose fever" somehow doesnt effect lower classes that are unable to afford the pharma regiments the upper class are on.
Lots more stuff covertly interwoven in there also (for the parapolitically-minded)
Jodorowsky and Moebius are pretty sus IMHO.
The cyberpunk futurism made it a seminal work though apparently.
"The Incal" has even more 'stuff' in it.
(cc @HuntClancy)
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P.S. when i say Moebius and Jodorowsky are "sus"....I mostly mean Jodorowsky.... super-sus (see right image)
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