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Slan (Garland Library of Science Fiction) - Community Reviews back

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Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 11 years ago
A classic science fiction tale from the 40s. Slan has the obsession with ESP that most of the Science Fiction from that era has. It moves along rapidly like a novel fro, E. E. Doc Smith or from Bester. It is not quite as good as those and I did not like it as much as Voyage of the Space Beagle by...
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it 45 years ago
Read this way back in the day. It was good, for 70s sci-fi, but it was very 70s and I don't think it would hold up well today. But this is one of the originals in the genre of "persecuted misfit turns out to have super-powers and proceeds to kick ass while saving the society that hated and feared hi...
Bun's Books
Bun's Books rated it 56 years ago
Oh my goodness this was awful. I read it as part of a classics of science fiction project, and I understand that it was first published in 1940, but just.. UGH!! The prose is leaden, overcomplicated, without rhythm or grace, and sometime just flat bizarre. A sample, The thoughts erupting from his ...
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