Los Altísimos

Los Altísimos

Hugo Correa

Hugo Correa's “Los Altísimos” (1951), is one of the first books of science fiction of Latinamerica, in which the author describe an alien world like if this were more advance technologically (Poland). Through the story the protagonist and the reader star to discover the reality fragment by fragment, not knowing the whole truth of all till we arrive next to the end of the book.

Like many others of the same genre, “Los Altísimos” goes developing an end that you can know in advance, in which the protagonist can't do anything to change their destiny.

We are now in a “futuristic” world where people don't interact one each other but for work issues or to satisfy their biological needs, in which the figure of possession of a person (like in husband and wife) doesn't exist, and so everyone can do whatever they want with whoever they want, and so one day you can choose a sexual partner and the next day you choose a different one. Nonetheless you are forbidden to have some kind of partner in life (girlfriend, wife, whatever).

All the adventures happen in a planet that it was designed by some “Lords”. This planet is made itself of other planets, one tinier than the other, conserving the gravity constant in all of this planets. Also, you can go from one to another, and if there exist some danger, these planets can lock up to defend themselves. People doesn't born like in our days, letting a machinery to deal with all of this. Also, the “controller” can manipulate the DNA of people, to satisfy the needs of the world and make them better in all senses (the ones they believe). Also, this world function at perfection, having all the needs satisfied for human, and so they can do what they have to do.

Even though the androids don't appear in this story, where the human kind don't play to be gods, they must pay their “sins” condemned to live in this perfect world prison.

Are we advancing the right path of doing this a better place to live, changing ourselves to people with no feelings, without the possibility to do what we more want? Till what point do we must sacrifice ourselves as individuals for the common well? Evolution, is it always positive, even though the human loose the ability of being a human being?

Of course, there's much more in this book I'm not telling you, but that's because, and making the difference to the other reviews I've made, I want you to read this one. It's different, it's our, and make you think in a different way than the others.