The World Asunder

Croyd Spacetime Maneuvres #5

by Ian Wallace (pseud.), John Wallace Pritchard

Once again the astonishingly inventive mind of Ian Wallace has come up with a novel jampacked with new conceptions, mind-boggling conflicts, and edge-of-the-seat excitement. Ian Wallace, author of A VOYAGE TO DARI and CROYD, is unlike any other science fiction writer in this ability -- and in THE WORLD ASUNDER he has outdone himself!

It is impossible to summarize this unusual novel in a simple statement except to say that within it you will find a conflict between time epochs, the struggle of demigods, the development of a super-weapon beyond today's, and the creation of the strangest peace-keeping organization ever devised. Running through it all is a moving novel of human relations, love and hate, romance and murder, and of events that surpass and alter the normal elements of life.

252 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

4. pseudonym for John Wallace Pritchard

Reviews

[Noman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely weird and dreamlike. Bro is obsessed with sex. It's not an erotic novel, but the writer can't help shoehorning awkward sexual references into every chapter. A Chinese character briefly shows up and the narrator won't shut up about his small dick. Really? Then there's also the NFL-style sex draft later in the book that has almost nothing to do with the plot and is some cringey gooner fantasy out of a bad ecchi anime. Speaking of bad anime, one of the main characters has the implausible name of Diodoro Horse. Weird stuff.