Are there any science fiction stories about trying to create superhumanly competent/ubermench people, not through mechanical meddling of biology, but by orchestrating their lives on the pattern on some of history's most accomplished people? E.g. it seems like many great people in the past had traumatic childhoods, with loved ones dying early, being immersed in novel/foreign situations where the had to constantly think fast and adapt to survive.
>>25189165Dune but it isn't what you're imagining lolAlso>ubermench
>>25189165There are but it's called aristocrat autobiographies and it's not science fiction.
>>25189167Well I imagine something conspiratorial and questionable and traumatic.I suppose Dune does fit from what I know of it, in a way. Asimov has his "psychohistory" too though that's a much broader in scope.>ubermenschIt adequately communicates an idea, no?What term do you prefer for people on the Pareto edge who are capable of accomplishing magnitudes more than most of their supposed peers in any given field? "Genius" IMO doesn't really cut it. Drive, motivation, and the ability to synthesize multiple domains of life experience are as necessary if not more so than just raw intelligence.
>>25189165you mean like The Boys From Brazil?
>>25189165Frank Herbert's Dosadi Experiment
