The Happy Breed

The Happy Breed

"The Happy Breed" is a short story by John Sladek from Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions" (1967). It details the Bald-Sopranoesque lifestyle of the five last humans in a world of "mussulmen". They also call them zombies.

Mussulman is a term used to describe people hooked into a "happiness grid". There are similarities between the dystopia described in this story and the world created in the film "The Matrix", however the story predates the film by thirty-two years.


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