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Downward to the Earth

by Robert Silverberg, Bronson Pinchot (Narrator)

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Gundersen returned to Holman's World seeking atonement for his harsh years as colonial governer. But now this lush, exotic planet of mystery was called by its ancient name of Belzagor, and it belonged once again to its native alien races, the nildoror and the sulidoror. Drawn by its spell, Gundersen began a harrowing pilgrimage to its mist-shrouded north, to witness a stra...more

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May 07, 2013 mark monday rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: futuristik, z-robert-silverberg, new-dimensions

gentle elephant things in the jungle; furry man-shaped things in the mist. our hero, former colonial station chief, returns to this strange planet much changed. the planet itself has changed: its residents no longer considered mere "animals", beasts of burden to be used as humans see fit... they are "people". a surprisingly liberal future-Earth now recognizes these beings as sentient, as does our hero. he returns to this place, full of regret for past actions, craving understanding and redemptio...more gentle elephant things in the jungle; furry man-shaped things in the mist. our hero, former colonial station chief, returns to this strange planet much changed. the planet itself has changed: its residents no longer considered mere "animals", beasts of burden to be used as humans see fit... they are "people". a surprisingly liberal future-Earth now recognizes these beings as sentient, as does our hero. he returns to this place, full of regret for past actions, craving understanding and redemption, yearning for the intangible. he will seek to provide recompense and he will know change, a great and terrible change.

this marvelous little classic gets everything right: a beautifully detailed yet still mysterious world... a flawed protagonist striving to accomplish ambiguous yet still understandable goals... intriguing mysteries and a strange quest... aliens that feel genuinely alien... and a powerful theme running through it all: to truly understand others is to truly understand yourself; one cannot be accomplished without the other.

there are shades of Heart of Darkness here (even including a character named "Kurtz"), except turned inside-out: the darkness within man made almost inconsequential; darkness made light. i was also reminded of tales of colonial India (even including an alien character named "Srin'gahar"), the misdeeds and the culture clash and the ugliness and the beauty. looking forward, i was also reminded of Tepper's Grass, a book published many years after this one that takes one of this novel's central ideas and runs with it, in a much more horrific direction.

Silverberg usually writes about the need to understand ourselves and the yearning to transcend who we are or who we are supposed to be. physical travel that parallels inner change. and such is Downward to the Earth.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

ECCLESIASTES 3:21

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this review is a part of a longer article on Robert Silverberg posted on Shelf Inflicted.(less)

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Sep 21, 2011 Kat Hooper rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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After being back on Earth for eight years, Edmund Gunderson returns to the formerly colonized planet Belzagor where he used to be one of the human rulers of the two intelligent species who live there — the nildoror, who look much like elephants, and the sulidoror, who look like apes. While Gunderson was on Belzagor, he considered these species to be soulless and stupid, but now that the humans have given up their control of the planet, he realizes that he...more ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

After being back on Earth for eight years, Edmund Gunderson returns to the formerly colonized planet Belzagor where he used to be one of the human rulers of the two intelligent species who live there — the nildoror, who look much like elephants, and the sulidoror, who look like apes. While Gunderson was on Belzagor, he considered these species to be soulless and stupid, but now that the humans have given up their control of the planet, he realizes that he sinned against the nildoror, and he wants to cleanse his conscience by undergoing their ritual of rebirth.

When Gunderson arrives, he finds that the planet is gradually reverting back to the wild (the nildoror don’t have opposable thumbs, after all) and he marvels that the nildoror and the sulidoror are now working and living together — a practice which they did not keep when the humans ruled the planet. After he gets the nildoror’s permission to travel freely, he sets out across the planet and travels to the place of rebirth. Along the way, he encounters the beauty and the terror of that wild planet, learns more about the species that inhabit it, and begins to fully realize the evil he committed there.

If this sounds a little familiar, that’s because Robert Silverberg’s Downward to the Earth (1970) is his tribute to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902), which explored the Belgians’ cruel colonization of the Congo. Silverberg makes his homage transparent by naming one of his characters after Conrad’s Kurtz. Like Heart of Darkness, Downward to the Earth was first serialized and later published as a novel. Also, like Heart of Darkness, Silverberg’s descriptions of the coexisting beauty and horror of Belzagor are the best parts of the book.

The title Downward to the Earth, comes from Ecclesiastes 3:21 (“Who knows that the spirit of man ascends upward and the spirit of the beast descends downward to the earth?”). Not only does Silverberg consider the question of what happens to the souls of humans and beasts, but he also asks how we should distinguish a human from a beast. Are some “beasts” more human than we are?

Downward to the Earth could be considered as Christian allegory because it beautifully illustrates the pain of guilt and loneliness, the desire for redemption, the relief of forgiveness and liberation, and the pleasure of unity with like-minded souls. There is much Christian symbolism, too, including a serpent who offers a drug which promises the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:5). Silverberg portrays the drinking of the serpent’s drug as a great sin, but the commission of this sin leads to the understanding of the need to be reborn (“through the law comes the knowledge of sin” ~Romans 3:20). The allegory eventually breaks down (as allegories usually do) when we see how the redemption is accomplished, but I enjoyed this thought-provoking aspect of the novel.

Blackstone Audio produced the version I listened to which was read by the magnificent Bronson Pinchot, one of my favorite readers. Downward to the Earth is a beautiful story and the audiobook is a great way to read it. (less)

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Feb 11, 2013 Sandy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Up until last week, I hadn't read Robert Silverberg's brilliant sci-fi novel "Downward to the Earth" in almost 27 years, but one scene remained as fresh in my memory as on my initial perusal: the one in which the book's protagonist, Edmund Gundersen, comes across a man and a woman lying on the floor of a deserted Company station on a distant world, their still-living bodies covered in alien fluid that is being dripped upon them by a basket-shaped organism, whilst they themselves act as gestating...more Up until last week, I hadn't read Robert Silverberg's brilliant sci-fi novel "Downward to the Earth" in almost 27 years, but one scene remained as fresh in my memory as on my initial perusal: the one in which the book's protagonist, Edmund Gundersen, comes across a man and a woman lying on the floor of a deserted Company station on a distant world, their still-living bodies covered in alien fluid that is being dripped upon them by a basket-shaped organism, whilst they themselves act as gestating hosts to some parasitic larvae. This scene, perhaps an inspiration for the similar happenings in the "Alien" film of a decade later, is simply unforgettable, but as a recent rereading of the book has served to demonstrate, it is just one of many superbly rendered sequences in this great piece of work. Originally appearing as a four-part serial starting in the November 1969 issue of "Galaxy" magazine--just one of six major sci-fi novels that Silverberg saw published that year--"Downward to the Earth" made its debut in book form in 1970. A perennial fan favorite ever since, and chosen for inclusion in David Pringle's excellent overview volume "Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels," it is a work that its author has expressed only a belated appreciation for himself, in the face of near universal praise.

The book takes place in the year 2248, when Gundersen, the former administrator of Holman's World, returns to the planet eight years after Earth has relinquished all colonial claims. The planet is now called Belzagor by its two dominant life forms: the nildoror--which resemble elephants except for their green color, additional set of tusks, cranial ridges...and purple dung--and the sulidoror, 10-foot-tall, shaggy, bipedal entities with tapirlike snouts. Drawn back to Belzagor to both visit the few remaining Earthmen still on the planet and to investigate the mysterious nildoror ceremony of "rebirth," which no Earthman has ever witnessed, Gundersen, as it turns out, has a third reason for his return: a sense of guilt arising from the manner in which he had formerly treated the nildoror, patronizing them and even interfering with a group in the midst of a rebirth pilgrimage. Thus, we follow Gundersen as he travels from the steaming jungles of Belzagor's central region and up to the so-called Mist Country of its more northerly zone, encountering old friends and running across an amazing array of alien flora and fauna, and are ultimately vouchsafed a look at the truly mind-blowing, psychedelic ceremony of rebirth itself....

Like all truly superior sci-fi, "Downward to the Earth" is the sort of novel that just bursts with some imaginative idea or unexpected touch on every single page. It is a terrific feat of the imagination, wonderfully well written by Silverberg (who, at this point, had already seen around 40 novels published since his first, "Revolt on Alpha C," in 1954), and with fascinating characters, both alien and human. It is also, typical of its author, a highly literate affair, with numerous allusions to the Bible, to Dante's "Divine Comedy," to English poet Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem "Dover Beach," and to Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (one of Gundersen's old friends on the planet, who undergoes a disastrous rebirth himself, is named Kurtz). Belzagor itself is wonderfully described by Silverberg; not only the jungles and the Mist Country, but also the mysterious Central Plateau region and the mirror-bright, crystalline wasteland known as the Sea of Dust. Perhaps best of all, however, are the descriptions of all the grotesque animals and plants to be found on Belzagor: the tiger moss, the razor shark, the monkeylike munziror, the jelly-crabs, the mobile fungoids and on and on...plus, of course, that bright-red, wall-hanging basket thing! Topography is also memorable in the novel, with the 1,600-meter-high, triple-tiered Shangri-La Falls--where Gundersen visits his old flame Seena and her body-hugging pet amoeba--and the mountain of rebirth in the Mist Country being both figurative and literal standouts. Silverberg, apparently, wrote this novel after a recent trip to East Africa, and his primary intention with his book is a laudable one: to show that the native races of a region (or, by extension, a planet) may have a LOT more on the ball, as far as intelligence and culture are concerned, than their imperialist occupiers are willing to admit. Here, the truth about the nildoror and sulidoror, as regards their cultures and how the two races are connected, comes as a real eye-opener to both Gundersen and the reader. "Gundy" is a likable protagonist, only seeking to atone for past instances of malfeasance, and he makes for a good companion as we explore this rather intimidating planet; a planet that Silverberg, through his great skill, makes us see, feel, smell, taste and hear. Pringle writes that it is sci-fi "done with feeling," and that the book is "very well described, [with] several pieces of memorable grotesquerie." I happen to love this novel, all the way to its wonderful, transcendent conclusion, in which our protagonist gets precisely what he deserves. A pity that Silverberg never chose to return to Belzagor, as he did to the world of Majipoor on so many occasions. It is a mysterious, exotic, dangerous and yet beautiful world, one that I'm sure all lovers of intelligent sci-fi will love to immerse themselves in. As you can tell, this is one of my favorite science fiction novels, and comes more than highly recommended. Just wondering, though, Mr. Silverberg...where can I purchase one of those monomolecular jungle blankets?(less)

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Oct 14, 2010 Charles Dee Mitchell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mid-century-sf

In his introduction to the edition I read, Silverberg says that as he wrote this book he worried that it was nothing more than a failed Conrad imitation. Conrad and Kipling are inspirations here, and he conceived the novel while in Africa in the late sixties, a time when almost all the old colonial holdings had gained liberation. His creation of a planet after "relinquishment" is convincing and entertaining. His sentient alien creatures, who remind earthlings of elephants, are sympathetic and fa...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Marc Goldstein rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Edmund Gundersen returns to the planet he once governed eight years ago. The two intelligent native species have resumed control of the planet. The Nildoror resemble elephants; the Sulidoror suggest carnivorous apes. Gundersen wants to participate in the Nildoror rebirth ritual. His life has been foundering since the planet returned to native control, and he feels guilty for enslaving the Nildoror. He asks a Nildoror elder for passage to the northern mist country, where the rebirth ceremony is p...more

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May 10, 2012 Sol Gonzalez rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2007, ciencia-ficción

Gundersen acaba de tomar su retiro como administrador imperial y regresa a Belzagor, planeta en el que estuvo durante unos años como máxima ley, porque durante su estancia no pudo terminar de comprender a ese intrincado planeta. Según la política de descolonización, consistente en dar la independencia a todos los alienigenas con lengua y cultura propia, Belzagor es dejado en manos de sus pobladores nativos.

La raza nativa de Belzagor son paquidermos en una sociedad inteligente que no desarrollaro...more

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Jul 30, 2009 Andreas rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Belzagor is a planet with two intelligent species, one of them resembling in appearance our elefants. Humans have tried to conquer it but finally were forced to leave. Edmund Gundersen, the former administrator of the planet, returns after eight years. He knows that he behaved wrongly and goes on a kind of pilgramage to repent.

The reader is taken on an interesting journey. Robert Silverberg has created an exotic planet with real aliens. After two thirds though I felt a little bit bored. The even...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Years ago, Edmund Gunderson worked for the Company on Holman’s World, a lush jungle planet with two sentient native species: the nildoror, large elephantine herbivores, and the sulidoror, a race of hairy simian-like creatures with powerful claws. Neither had the means to make or use technological devices or buildings, and so most of the Company employees considered them little more than talking animals, using them as beasts of burden for manual labor. Times, and opinions, change. After nearly a...more Years ago, Edmund Gunderson worked for the Company on Holman’s World, a lush jungle planet with two sentient native species: the nildoror, large elephantine herbivores, and the sulidoror, a race of hairy simian-like creatures with powerful claws. Neither had the means to make or use technological devices or buildings, and so most of the Company employees considered them little more than talking animals, using them as beasts of burden for manual labor. Times, and opinions, change. After nearly a decade living on Holman’s World, Edmund ends up leaving when the Company relinquished control of a planet it never really owned.

Now, Edmund is returning to the planet with a group of tourists, a planet renamed Belzagor by its freed native inhabitants. The Company’s dilapidated facilities cater to small groups of tourists, as the human imprint on the planet is slowly reclaimed by the jungle. Edmund wants to make amends for some of his misdeeds while working for the Company and get a different view of the native cultures. He hopes to trek into the jungle to witness the nildoror ritual of rebirth, stopping on the way to see the few friends and former coworkers who decided to stay behind.

And so begins an epic journey: one man’s trek, both physical and psychological, through inhospitable jungle wilderness. Edmund travels with a group of nildoror, and through conversation, begins to realize more of his past mistakes than he thought possible; it’s as much an eye-opener for Edmund as it is for the reader. There’s a sharp contrast, here: the peaceful and wise nildoror, the mysterious sulidoror, the few ex-Company workers who stayed behind, and the limousine-liberal tourists, who preach for relinquishment to the natives… until they see the nildoror for themselves: dirty, simple, uncivilized elephants. (As we already know, looks are deceptive.) The novel is a fascinating character piece, and Edmund’s journey of enlightenment makes for a fascinating and thought-provoking read. If you haven’t guessed it already, the novel is something of an homage to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with its jungle-centric journey of discovery for a former colonial overseer.

Out of all the Silverberg I’ve read so far, this is the closest to his best, and jumps to the front of the line of favorites. It’s a moving and thought-provoking story with an exotic setting, featuring a pair of detailed and realistic alien species. Progress is in gradual steps, a slow, brooding, philosophical journey through Belzagor’s native cultures, watching Edmund and the nildoror develop. The novel has a quiet confidence as it works its way towards a stunning finale; the conclusion is foreshadowed, but was still unexpected, a perfect ending which expounds on everything the novel had built on. Silverberg’s hand at pacing and developing all this is nothing short of masterful.

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Nov 26, 2012 Lisa Ard rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Author Robert Silverberg pays homage to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with this science fiction novel first published in 1969. Gunderson returns to the planet Belzagor eight years after Earth relinquished rights to the colony. The native nildoror and sulidoror accept his presence and his quest to the misty, northern lands, where Gunderson hopes to witness the rebirthing ceremony of the nildoror. Along the way, readers learn of Gunderson’s past, meet his former colleagues, and follow his pilg...more

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Nov 21, 2012 T.L. Evans rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg is a blatant rip-off (no, not homage to or inspired by, rip-off) of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, peppered with an over developed sense of post-colonial malaise, which is then further undermined by an ending inspired by Timothy Leary. The twist in this book, intended to differentiate it from Conrad's wonderful tale, is blatantly obvious from very early on in the novel. The subsequent thematic twist undermines the message of Conrad's work and leaves...more

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Jun 28, 2011 Mark Strumke rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-again

This is an old sci-fi book by Robert Silverberg written in the 70’s. What I really about this book (and books of it’s period) is that Silverberg was able to write a short (200 pages or so) book that managed to tell a very engaging story in one self contained novel. It seems that nowadays you can’t find a sci-fi or fantasy book that’s less than 400 pages long or is not one book of a trilogy (or more). While I do like to read a well done series of books, I’m more impressed by writers like Silverbe...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Old fantasy/sci-fi, where the resident aliens look like elephants. But they're sentient, and have their own developed language...
And this space ranger who had been stationed on their planet goes back to make amends. It was pretty good, a little silly at times (hooray for sexy hallucinations!), but quick and fun.

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Feb 02, 2012 Shawn Scarber rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Silverberg writes one of the more interesting post colonial commentaries. This is a little bit like Heart of Darkness, but I think it's a lot more like other Silverberg novels; a long journey to a rebirth experience. Hopeful and uplifting, this is one of the better late 60s science fiction novels.

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Mar 29, 2010 Captain Quasar rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This one is good. It has a deep meaning and isn't just ridiculous. The story is consistent, Silverberg didn't throw in any action scenes in order to "spice up" the plot, and I must say that I really liked the creatures. Highly recommended for anybody who enjoys a good, contemplative novel.

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Oct 19, 2011 Banner rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, alien

This book deals with alien religion and the concepts of atonement/forgiveness as universal phenomenon for all sentient species. The story is face paced, engaging and entertaining. I like the style of writing, I've only read short stories by Silverberg and saw a different side to his writing in this novel. Highly recommend.

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Jun 10, 2013 Sumit rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Written over forty years ago, this book is a classic. Silverberg takes the reader through a exploration of a new world, replete with its own flora, fauna and geography o a journey to answer questions about the freedom of the soul surpassing the limitations of a physical frame.

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Aug 01, 2012 John Peyton Cooke rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an amazing and profound science fiction novel about the conflict of cultures on an alien planet. Far more intelligent than other novels of similar theme. I read an old paperback recently, but thankfully Tor/Orb Books is reissuing this masterwork again on August 7.

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Mar 14, 2012 Endre Fodstad rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This one was a real slog to get through. Silverberg's attempt to create a science fiction Heart of Darkness was unfortunately not an overly successful one - overall, the book is not very engaging. Gunderson never emerges as an interesting character and the Nildoror/Sulidoror seem (admittedly, this is 40 years after it was written) a bit to clicheed to work for me. The "plot twist" is also made so blindingly obvious from very early in the book that Gunderson's discovery loses its effect near the...more

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Feb 22, 2011 RUSA CODES rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: reading-list-2009

This is a Read-Alike title for Hunter’s Run, the Reading List winner in the Science Fiction category for 2009. For the complete list, go to http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/aw...

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Jun 05, 2011 Trevor rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi

I can't say that I didn't enjoy this book because I did, it was the ending that let it down for me. The main character feels like he has turned into a messiah!
Maybe he has but it felt so contrived that I was a little uncomfortable with it.

Overall the storyline was interesting with some nice plot twists along the way as we discover all about this world and it's creatures. I even bought into the fact that one of the intelligent species resembled elephants on our planet. I mean, who's to say what d...more

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Sep 10, 2009 Frank Taranto rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Silverberg shines again! based loosely on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the story is the heroes search for atonement by going through the rebirth process that his company had once exploited.

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Mar 05, 2013 Whittnee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is really good so far. Very thought provoking. Mom and Camille I think you would both like this book. just finished it. It was very good.

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Jun 09, 2013 Jüstin Fink rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Great old school Sci-Fi. Fantastic depiction of a dark animalistic alien work. An alien reflection of british imperialism, colonialism, it's ensuing guilt and a desire for redemption.

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Jul 19, 2012 Rod Hyatt rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was listening to this on CD. I got half way through but just couldn't dig the story. I did some jump skipping to get most to the end. This type story just wasn't what grabs me.

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Sep 13, 2012 Zvi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Vivid descriptions, linear journey plot. A nice tight little novel with more than a dash of 60s mysticism.

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Dec 02, 2012 Nick Wellings rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: le-favourites

This book made me cry. I don't cry at books much, ever. I LOVED IT.

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Sep 20, 2012 Caron rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Classic Sci-fi and an extremely fast read with big ideas!

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Aug 04, 2011 Neil Rickards rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Post collonial spin on Science Fiction. Well written

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Jan 09, 2011 Phillip rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pretty good science fiction version of Heart of Darkness.

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May 31, 2013 Dylan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

great contemplation of sentience!

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