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The Age of the Pussyfoot
MAN ALIVE
Charles Forrester was out of the deepfreeze. It had taken several centuries to bring him back to life.
But what a life it was!
The 26th Century offered pleasure at the flip of a button -- everything from gourmet food to stupendous sex right there for the asking. And for a rich man like Forrester, the possibilities of delight were endless.
Of course, everything else...more
Charles Forrester was out of the deepfreeze. It had taken several centuries to bring him back to life.
But what a life it was!
The 26th Century offered pleasure at the flip of a button -- everything from gourmet food to stupendous sex right there for the asking. And for a rich man like Forrester, the possibilities of delight were endless.
Of course, everything else...more
187 pages
Published
1979
by Panther
(first published 1969)
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An interesting 'sleeper awakens' tale that kind of reminded me of the movie sleeper except taken a little more seriously. Slightly unique in that it does does posit a future where everyone carries around a personal computer, and a knowledge industry post-work type economy, very much of its time in that the future is basically full of hippies. Legalized and ritualized killing, and everyone wearing skimpy clothes and goofy hair seemed very 60's to me. I initially heard about this book through a Wa...more
Fred Pohl was more an editor than an author in his own right around the time The Age of the Pussyfoot was published, but this book shows just what a crackerjack writer he was (and remains!).
Sticking to a satirical vein he explored with frequent collaborator C.M. Kornbluth in the '50s, Pohl uses the ever convenient plot device of suspended animation to plop a mid-20th century American fire-fighter in the world of the 26th century. What follows is a deftly and breezily (though never vapidly) writ...more
Sticking to a satirical vein he explored with frequent collaborator C.M. Kornbluth in the '50s, Pohl uses the ever convenient plot device of suspended animation to plop a mid-20th century American fire-fighter in the world of the 26th century. What follows is a deftly and breezily (though never vapidly) writ...more
I've never been much of a sci-fi reader. My loss. I wonder what I would have thought of this book in 8th grade, when it was new. I'm sure I would have found it engaging and fun...it's certainly that. But how much of the details would I have dismissed as pure fantasy?
Pohl writes of devices, pharmaceuticals, policies and morality so clearly not of the time he wrote this (1968) that he pushed the setting of his story 500 years into the future...yet a mere 43 years later, a lot of it is already here...more
Pohl writes of devices, pharmaceuticals, policies and morality so clearly not of the time he wrote this (1968) that he pushed the setting of his story 500 years into the future...yet a mere 43 years later, a lot of it is already here...more
Want me to define disjointedness with an example? Look at the cover of the Del Rey edition of this novel... And now flip open to the introduction where Pohl writes how he is hopeful that this novel might be read by the general public at large (not just SF fans). And back to the cover again which features a many-tentacled alien in a spaceship.
But despite the fact that publishers didn't expect this book to appeal to the mainstream, Pohl certainly hoped it might.
The book scores early when the pro...more
But despite the fact that publishers didn't expect this book to appeal to the mainstream, Pohl certainly hoped it might.
The book scores early when the pro...more
I love Frederik Pohl. His insights amaze me. I didn't love this as much as Gateway and his entire Heechee Saga series of books, but I liked it a lot. This is a quick read and an interesting point of view of what he thought 2008 would look like, from a 1968 perspective. While he set the book in the year 2527, in the afterward he said he actually thought we were about 50 years away from this "future." He wrote the book in 1968, and he got a great deal right about where are we today. Impressive!
great book
He wakes up after having been frozen for two hundred years, and has to get used to 23rd century society. The acclimatization isn't all straightforward. They fix him up with a job, and he asks what his salary is going to be.
"A bit over two million dollars a week," they tell him. He's pleased! "Oh no," they say, concerned, "that's rock-bottom minimum. You simply can't get by on less than two million."
As you can see, a logical projection of current trends in Western society...
"A bit over two million dollars a week," they tell him. He's pleased! "Oh no," they say, concerned, "that's rock-bottom minimum. You simply can't get by on less than two million."
As you can see, a logical projection of current trends in Western society...
An interesting forward look at what future gadgets and mores could do, based on extrapolations from the 60s. The understandable but constant confusion of the lead character reduce the drama, as he is always trying to understand what's going on now, and reacting often blindly. A fast read and an okay pulp sci-fi.
Endearing but deepy pessimistic, a future tale of people unable to tell if they're happy or not, and can't be bothered to stand against forces that threaten to destroy them.
Sep 13, 2012
BoekenTrol
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From one of the book boxes that Moem sent to me.
This is not really my genre, so now I've found a new home for it, it'll move house again to a new reader.
This is not really my genre, so now I've found a new home for it, it'll move house again to a new reader.
Sweat. What exactly does that mean?
Speculative future, silly.
A technical writer and volunteer fireman dies in 1969, is frozen, and is revived in 2512. He has various adventures, and gets involved with the Sirians (sic - not Syrians!) who are at war with Earthlings. In 2512 there is a device called the joymaker, which is an AI-equipped cell phone that can stimulate its owner's nervous system directly; it does not appear as fantastic in the age of USB-powered vibrators and electric shock-giving Xbox mods, as it did in 1969.
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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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