Austin Train has given up his professorship and his role as environmentalist spokesman to become an anonymous garbage man in Los Angeles, and, later, a wanted man brought to kangaroo court by a neofascist American government.
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When Hogan is activated for his spy mission to Yatakang, his eptification as a killer turns him not so much into a pure actor as into a rationalized version of a "mucker"—those anomic individuals who go murderously insane (hence the derivation, from "amok") in the streets of America, Europe, and, in growing numbers, Yatakang as well.
Pluribus starts out as hard sci-fi, as a beamed RNA sequence sees humanity transformed into one amorphous, permanently happy hive mind.
Famine, war and disease are all a thing of the past as almost every human on Earth becomes one.
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