Aberrant: Project Utopia
Published by White Wolf
By Carl Bowen, Steven Long, and Angel McCoy
144 pages, $19.95
(Review by controversial nova Divis Mal, received via encrypted, untraceable Opmail)
No doubt because of my publicly stated belief that novas cannot be held accountable to or judged by the laws and ethical standards of baseline humans, I am often inaccurately portrayed on the OpNet and elsewhere as some sort of "nova supremacist" who holds them in contempt. Nothing could farther from the truth. Indeed, I find baselines and their insatiable curiosity to be of great interest to me. A case in point is Aberrant: Project Utopia, a recently published book about the do-gooders of Project Utopia, including the misguided novas who make up Team Tomorrow. While not without its flaws, this little volume provided a plethora of valuable information about the Project - including some of its dirty little secrets.
The book is divided into six chapters plus an appendix; it begins with a rather uninspired piece of short fiction intended, I suppose, to get one into the spirit of the Project's much-vaunted ideals. Considering its brevity, I will overlook its lack of value to me. Chapter 1 is a useful primer on the origin and growth of Project Utopia and, more importantly, Team Tomorrow. The chapter is remarkably well balanced, deriving its information from a variety of news and media sources, not all of whom share the wide eyed awe in which Utopia is held by the . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: March 31, 2000
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