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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
SHOULD BE TITLED: "HERE'S MY WORST",
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Golden Age SF: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing (Paperback)
I am a golden age sci fi fan but I must warn you away from this misbegotten tome. I tried, I really did, but there was not one story here worth my time. It's like the authors were asked to pick their worst stories.Killdozer is the worst with its dated slang and 40's mentality and, oh yeah, the alien is a rock. That's right, a rock. Nerves is a story about doctors and radiation sickness before they knew what it was, what caused it or what cured it. Wordy, drawn-out and no action or characters worth reading about. Giant killer is about rats in a spaceship. Yup, rats deformed by radiation. If you like deformed rats you'll find it a moving read. "With Folded Hands" is the pick of the litter. That's why they saved it til last I guess. Most are extremely dated. The A bomb was a big thing at the time and it was considered sexy to write anything, no matter how bad, about it at the time is my guess. Ignorance and lack of imagination was no impediment to publication it seems. There are some excellent collections out there from the golden age. Just look up any book by the New England Science Fiction Association. amazon's got dozens. But this collection deserves the darkest obscurity. |
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The Mammoth Book of Golden Age SF: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing by Isaac Asimov (Paperback - January 24, 2007)
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