Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest
by Olaf Stapledon
1935
ISBN/ASIN: B000XQX5N0
Number of pages: 342
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A strange looking child, John, was born to an ordinary family, but he was endowed with intellectual and physical characteristics as advanced from us as we are from are our immediate primate ancestors. Definitive fictionalization of mutated superman.
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