rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (0)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] findthatbook 2018-02-23 10:03 am (UTC)

David Zindell's Neverness (and the ensuing Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy)?

It doesn't match all the points of your description exactly, but has the far-future city, the young space pilot finishing training (with the hyperjumping and expanded awareness), the famous father, body-sculpting to fit in with a tribe of Neanderthals, etc..

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