Pohl came up with a fantastic setting here, a world of capitalism run amuck with people constantly bombarded with advertising and individuals treated as little more than commodities, but he did not really have a story to tell. Kornbluth added an identity theft plot and got the ball the rolling for ...
I have no idea what to rate this, my first and last horror book. I thought it was sci-fi. I thought it would be interesting. But, no. It's one of those books that stays with one forEVER and crops up in nightmares as well as other times of deep stress. I remember every word as though it was written i...
C.M. Kornbluth was a talented pulp SF writer, who came up with a remarkable number of good ideas during his short life. The title story is one of the best ones. Intelligence is largely inherited, reasons Kornbluth, and stupid people tend to have more children than smart people. Ergo, the average lev...
The Earth is crushed in the implacable grip of... um, I can't quite remember. Giant killer robots from outer space, I believe, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, people are being strongly encouraged to understand that Resistance is Futile and concentrate on spiritual things instead. The hero initially...
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...
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