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Light a Last Candle

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I read this masterpiece while serving in south eastaisia in 1970 28 years later it still haunts me with its vived portraill of a planet enslaved from the frozen waist of the northern continet through the mutated men and women enslaved to the living wall deviding the planet at is equater the hunt in the well for the super brain to that moment on the last page when you learn the the name of the alien race that has done all the damage and the hero is in the forgoten cavern with all the old missels and is about to lite that last candle to start a chain reaction the action never stops a thriller that binds the minds eye to the pages to the last minute.

Light a Last Candle By Vincent King. The term classic SCI-FI is often used to discribe the great Techniques used in this genre during the 50's and early 60's.Light a Last Candle is a classic in this manner but it also punches the reader with a hypnotic blend of action and the bazarre in a way i have never seen equaled in any other work of fiction. Literally , by the end of the first page you will find yourself hopelessly involved with the cynical hero and his resigned sence of humour, the atmosphere created by Mr King will surround you with a literal fog of inventive creations and his observations of the most ridiculious aspects of human nature will make you gasp with a delicious horror at the depths humanity allows itself to plunge if thats what it takes to remain popular. Still ahead of it's time.... Beyond the ability of most actors to convey....( Maybe Richard E. Grant?) Utterly brillient.