The hunters

by Burt Wetanson

Very good in very good dust jacket (faint remainder spray on bottom edge, price-clipped with a new publisher's price sticker Hardcover first edition - Garden City, Doubleday,, 1978.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (faint remainder spray on bottom edge, price-clipped with a new publisher's price sticker on the dj flap) . First printing. The authors' first science fiction novel - "In a quiet Montana town, one dusty day is like another - until the boredom is shattered by a mysterious couple promising the answers to people's dreams. The townspeople are more than willing to board a futuristic bus to Paradise. But the bus goes only as far as a long-abandoned ghost town. Instead of a journey to a better world, the travelers find themselves descending into hell - in the most shocking alien encounter ever imagined." 175 pp.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction

180 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Grady Hendrix · Rating 2 out of 5]

"The Most Dangerous Game" UFO-style.

[N. M. D. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alien safari tourists dupe a group of humans into going to a isolated ghost town so they can hunt them for sport.

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The biggest mistake the book makes is having scenes from the prospective of the aliens. Depsite constantly laughing about mankind's primitivity, they're far too human and familar to feel sufficiently distinct. As if it wasn't already super obvious, a character even compared them to British invaders in the 1800s. This is a concept that's repeated throughout, where a point is made through the action and then someone says it out loud in case you were too slow to catch the obvious. Black and indigenous chararters appear to exist only to further hammer down the invading colonist theme. Everyone is obsessed with ethnicity. The headhopping is unbearably amateurish. I don't mind multiple perspectives, but I don't want to be in one character's head in one sentence and another in the next. If the perspectives were properly separated and evenly distributed, and the alien perspectives were cut, this would be a serviceable (though racially obsessive) little horror novel. That, or make it entirely from the alien perspectives. They'd still be too human, but it'd be kinda fun to see it from their sides when the tables start to turn.

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've wondered if this book was an influence on the Predator series. It's got something of a similar concept. Pretty good, although the Predator movies did it better.

[DJMikeG · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely fast moving, action packed lil horror sci fi nugget from the late 70s.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun, quick read.