High-Opp

Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was writtenbetween Frank Herbert's classics TheDragon in the Sea and Dune.EMASI! Each Man ASeparate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistanceforce engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society drivenentirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plushapartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happento be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutalconditions.Daniel Movius, ex-senior liaitor, rides high in the opinionpolls-until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man.Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in thecity's underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for arevolution against the corrupt superprivileged-and every revolution needs aleader.