Eric Frank Russell
Birth date: January 06, 1905
Died: February 28, 1978
Eric Frank Russell's Books
This was the most disappointing pair of Ace Double novels that I have yet read. The main point of interest is that they both shared a common theme of sci-fi "supermen," albeit in different circumstances. The first one I read was Eric Frank Russell's Three to Conquer. In it, a precision instruments...
This book is meant to be Russell's finest work. In many ways it is very typical in style of 1950's science fiction. It concerns an alien who infiltrates a planet to pass as a local and undermine them so they lose in a war to the aliens. That is a common enough premises, but the wrinkle is that h...
The concept is very good, but the writing is AWFUL!
I gave it an extra star for quoting Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott.
Read this if you want to know how terrorism 'works'. And mind you, Eric Frank Russell was one crafty author. His aliens are more like humans than not. Just to avoid any controversy, Russell created a far away planet (Planet Jaimec) on which our protagonist (or is he?) must practice his 'skills' of t...
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