Hyacinths (Doubleday science fiction) [Hardcover]

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385154534
• ISBN-13: 978-0385154536
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,957,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Another frightening utopia, December 10, 2001

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This review is from: Hyacinths (Doubleday science fiction) (Hardcover)

In this book Yarbro shows us a society where the people's dreams are watched by the mass in sophisticated media, with ads in between. She describes us a few characters and writes chapters in which they are always arguing in couples. She repeats the same themes. She seemes possesed by Frank Herbert, as read the obsession with body language. And at the end the book tells you very few things for not so many pages.

The topic is interesting (reminds me the best Pohl/Kornbluth stories), but the book is not so. It's like a theater piece repeated over and over again. I suppose that later Yarbro books are better (in Spain only this and Nomads were edited, apart from some excelent short stories), but I recommend you not to buy it unless you are a fan of her.