Get Out of My Sky [Mass Market Paperback]

Leo Margulies (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: CREST; Later Printing edition (1964)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00214K06C
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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2.0 out of 5 stars An apple and an orange- neither so sweet, June 17, 2009

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M-I-K-E 2theD "2theD" (The Big Mango, Thailand) - See all my reviews

I have nothing to gauge this Blish novel on since this is my first reading of his work. I own Cities in Flight but I have yet to read it. Get Out of My Sky I thought would be a short introduction into the writing of Blish. In the Panther SF 1980 edition of Get Out of My Sky, there is the self-tilted novella (92 pages) and an additional story titled There Shall Be No Darkness (70 pages). While Sky and Darkness are both OK stories, they have no business being together in the same book as they stories are completely separate in time, space and plot. If the reader doesn't know this before starting the second story, they are struggling to make comparisons between the two when in fact the two almost seemed penned by different authors entirely!

Get Out of My Sky (3/5): The planet of Home circles the planet of Rathe in a double-star system, yet have known nothing of each other before their nuclear age. Though of the same unresolved origin, they are at each others throats even though they have never seen the people in their respective sky. One man takes a gamble to mend ways before each planet is destroyed by nuclear barrages. The story starts out in a mediocre fashion with a head-of-state contemplating a trip to the planet Rathe along with his soon-to-married son and daughter-in-law. At the planet of Rathe, they discover the enemy's secret weapon and are being influenced to use this weapon on their planet of Home. Science takes the backburner as the secret weapon is unveiled and the mysterious `force' of `voisk' is revealed. This pseudo-science taints the story.

There Shall Be No Darkness (2/5): Apart from the fact that I wasn't expecting a werewolf story and the fact that I don't read werewolf stories, I thought the story was OK. A group of intellects and artists are gathered in a Scottish mansion when one member is fingered as being a werewolf. Thereon, they attempt to hunt it down and assimilate the pseudo-scientific facts about lycanthropy. Blish takes it too seriously when trying to view the supernatural in the light of anatomy and biology. Silver bullets, garlic and crucifixes all have their scientific mumbo-jumbo.

There must be better Blish out there.