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Search The Sky
Deep in space in a universe gone mad.
Ross took on the field assignment for a lark. But the routine business trip catapulted him into a brain-blasting mission to a galaxy of alien worlds:
- A utopia ruled by ancients where youth was the greatest sin.
- A society dominated by savage Amazons where being male was the lowest crime.
- A coin-operated wasteland where the prime la...more
Ross took on the field assignment for a lark. But the routine business trip catapulted him into a brain-blasting mission to a galaxy of alien worlds:
- A utopia ruled by ancients where youth was the greatest sin.
- A society dominated by savage Amazons where being male was the lowest crime.
- A coin-operated wasteland where the prime la...more
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Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth's Search the Sky
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - December 28, 2011
Reading this is my idea of a good time. I was most reminded of Gulliver's Travels - a journey to various extraordinary societies, each an exaggeration for satire's sake. A businessman on "Halsey's Planet" notices that the society around him is decaying. He gets thrust into a faster-than-light travel adventure to other planets in other solar systems in search of symptoms of a similar d...more
Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth's Search the Sky
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - December 28, 2011
Reading this is my idea of a good time. I was most reminded of Gulliver's Travels - a journey to various extraordinary societies, each an exaggeration for satire's sake. A businessman on "Halsey's Planet" notices that the society around him is decaying. He gets thrust into a faster-than-light travel adventure to other planets in other solar systems in search of symptoms of a similar d...more
Pohl and Kornbluth are two of the greatest SF social satirists ever, and had collaborated before to excellent effect (The Space Merchants), but this one just does not connect its punches.
There are fine elements in it, and a few very memorable vignettes, but the effect is more tiring than illuminating. I don't know how much of this had to do with the edition I read being a 1985 fix-up and expansion by co-author Pohl (Kornbluth having unforutnately died in his prime long before), or if it were jus...more
There are fine elements in it, and a few very memorable vignettes, but the effect is more tiring than illuminating. I don't know how much of this had to do with the edition I read being a 1985 fix-up and expansion by co-author Pohl (Kornbluth having unforutnately died in his prime long before), or if it were jus...more
Quite a decent piece of SF satire, set (roughly) in the same universe as
The Marching Morons
. I liked the planet with the gerontocracy. The hero gets to participate in an election: they wheel out the candidates, all of whom are over 100 and with tubes coming out of their noses. With great fanfare of trumpets, you get to hear exactly how old each one is. The hero is trying to make his mind up, when his native girlfriend tells him not to be silly. "They tell us their ages, and we vote for the old...more
De landing van het ruimteschip
Como me gusta el classic SciFi cincuentero....
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Deserves 2.5 not 3.
Strange... Reads like a set of short stories, probably was...
Some particularly misogynistic bits, but on the whole either inoffensive or offensive to all...
Not sure about the genetics mentioned....
Strange... Reads like a set of short stories, probably was...
Some particularly misogynistic bits, but on the whole either inoffensive or offensive to all...
Not sure about the genetics mentioned....
Jan 14, 2013
Kelanth, numquam risit ubi dracones vivunt
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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor & fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited "Galaxy" magazine and its sister magazine "IF", winning the Hugo for "IF" three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
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