Coffeemaniax
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I've read this book in the late 80s/early 90s, though it might be older. At the time I read it in German, but I doubt it's actually a German book.
Earth is divided into two factions, Europe & America (IIRC) and a communist half.
Some general rose to power, and in the last book it is revealed that he separated his brain from his body to rule forever.
Also in the last book the navigator of a rocket (fastest ever built, key element of the book with a small crew), of African descent, is killed. His brain is then pulverized and mixed with brain matter of "pure" followers of the general's doctrine, who is trying to build an army of clones.
The now "rebelized" brain matter leads to an army of rebel-clones rising up against the general during what is supposed to be a public court hearing against the protagonists, who had been sentenced to death.
I know it's sounds rather vague, but it's been on my mind since forever and I just can't figure it out.
In one of the earlier books one of the protagonists (still on earth) is using a jetpack to fly from his house to... Somewhere.
Earth is divided into two factions, Europe & America (IIRC) and a communist half.
Some general rose to power, and in the last book it is revealed that he separated his brain from his body to rule forever.
Also in the last book the navigator of a rocket (fastest ever built, key element of the book with a small crew), of African descent, is killed. His brain is then pulverized and mixed with brain matter of "pure" followers of the general's doctrine, who is trying to build an army of clones.
The now "rebelized" brain matter leads to an army of rebel-clones rising up against the general during what is supposed to be a public court hearing against the protagonists, who had been sentenced to death.
I know it's sounds rather vague, but it's been on my mind since forever and I just can't figure it out.
In one of the earlier books one of the protagonists (still on earth) is using a jetpack to fly from his house to... Somewhere.
