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Rule Golden / Double Meaning (Tor Doubles) [Mass Market Paperback]

Damon Knight (Author)
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May 15, 1991 Tor Doubles
As a newspaper publisher, Robert James Dahls found the news disconcerting; in fact, inexplicable. News items like two boxers simultaneously knocking each other out, prison guards sick and unable to guard the prisoners, policemen shooting fleeing culprits and collapsing themselves, battered wives with husbands suffering the same injuries that they inflicted.

Dahl catches wind of a large experimental facility that is being led by the U.S. Department of Defense. His suspicions coincide with the strange, beyond-coincidental behavior that he's been observing. For what's on the grounds of the facility is much more radical than anything that was claimed to be found in Roswell. Not just an alien but one that has a strange effect on the human race. Where the Golden Rule in reversed: Be done by as you do to others. How can we get along without conflict? What will happen to the human race? Dahl soon finds himself a fugitive helping a bizarre alien save or destroy the Earth!
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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (May 15, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812512944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812512946
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,527,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Some of Knight's best work, March 20, 2000
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This review is from: Rule Golden / Double Meaning (Tor Doubles) (Mass Market Paperback)
Both of these books are excellent reads--action, thought and philosophy permeate the narrative. Rule Golden is a classic of science fiction; its viewpoint character is believable in his imperfections and its vision of eventual utopia is breathtaking. Double Meaning is nearly as good, and after all how can you resist a novella which celebrates the place of puns in intergalactic history? Damon Knight packs his writing full of interesting and well-thought out ideas--philosophical, sociological, and scientific--and writes well enough to pull them off. The book is very difficult to put down, but concise enough to read in less than a day. Buy this book. Trust me.
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