The Wanderer
by:
Fritz Leiber (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140025941 (0140025944)
Publish date: May 1st 1969
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 346
Edition language: English
This planetary disaster and first contact book won a Hugo, but it's not 5 star. One of the themes running through it is the recklessness of youth, from young characters to the encounter with a young species. Told from the perspective of many different characters, they don't all fit the theme. I chuc...
In this bizarre SF novel, which somehow managed to win a Hugo, a mobile planet crewed by a race of intelligent cats materialises in orbit around the Earth, causing all sorts of trouble. Tidal forces, you see. I think it's a metaphor for the arrival of sex in modern science fiction. Until the early 6...
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