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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Short Entertaining!,
This review is from: Search the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is basically about the demise of the human race across planets and one man's search to find out why. It is a very short (165 pages) and easy read. Not particularly funny or heart warming, but kept my interest. A good read.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
this dated SF novel does have its moments..,
By lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Search the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
'Search The Sky' by Kornbluth and Pohl was written in the early 1950s and it clearly hasn't aged well. The story lacks any sort of credibility from a variety of angles ... readers would have surely caught these fifty years ago. However the story does have some very intriguing elements. So one can say this science fiction novel has some great fiction but bad science.As for the story, spin forward several millenia into the future and we find several planets in distant galaxies inhabited by humans. For some unknown reason interplanetary communication/trade died out generations ago. However along comes an ancient ship carrying people with a curious, undecipherable message. This ship is the used to transport a trader/explorer to these other planets to see what has happened. The results are unexpected, .. and I'd rather not disclose spoilers. But Kornbluth/Pohl make some interesting observations about human nature and genetics. Believable? No, but certainly thought-provoking. Bottom line: a creative story line and insightful observations of mankind save this from being an amateurish, outdated SF novel.
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