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Forth in the Magnificent Space Saga.,
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This review is from: Twin Worlds (Professor Jameson Space Adventures, Vol. 4) (Mass Market Paperback)
Twin worlds is the 4th in Zorome series. You can read any of the books out of order and still enjoy them greatly.
Jones hero is an earthman whose brain is encased in a Zorome body think of a Victorian pillar box with tentacles and you've got it. This may sound weird but I assure you are wonderful and each book has a prologue that explains the origin of our hero. Jameson is set to wander the cosmos for centuries and visit the planets that inhabit endless space. Each book has 3 wonderful new planets or moons to explore. This is wonderful escapism and if I say I've read each one at least 5 times it says something of their power. They are so easy to read and demand so little of the reader I used them as relaxation during my Uni finals!! In actual fact this, like all of the books, contains 3 stories. They are Twin Worlds, on the planet fragment and the music monsters. These are some of the more powerful of Jones fertile imagination and how that man could imagine planets! Here we have a double planet like our earth and moon only this moon is covered in water with land but with the closeness of the planet the tides are titanic. This is one of those vistas that make Jones work so wonderful. A rightful leader is imprisoned on this moon and someone has sabotaged his villa with a slow leak which is engulfed each day by the seas. The second is the planet fragment, briefly a titanic planet has had a collision and a gigantic chunk has broken off and become a 'planet'. Jones uses his wonderful imagination to describe the differences in gravity on each of the cuboids shape fragment and the effects on the planets inhabitants. The 3rd a journey attacked by monsters! I won't give the plot away too much. My fellow critic has rightly said that all the aliens tend to be carnivores and violent not the more expected herbivore and passive. BUT I would suggest the books would be boring if the Zoromes landed and were mearly licked by an inquisitive 'cowlike' extra terestial? Also I think he is looking from the perspective of a reader in the 21st Century not fron the 60s in the last cetury when they were written. The irony here is for an Englishman defending an American writer from an American reviewer!! Zounds sirrah! etc More my money, be it American Dollars or English Pounds The aliens are superb. Pulp fiction maybe but the books are the equivalent of an Irish coffee. Delicious yet with a satisfying kick. Pure pleasure and so very 'moreish'. MORE PLEASE?
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A Work of Rough Imagination,
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This review is from: Twin Worlds (Professor Jameson Space Adventures, Vol. 4) (Mass Market Paperback)
There are some unusual sights in this little book of _voyages extraordinaires_ : an interplanetary rocket launched by a giant wheel powered by a steam engine (scientifically impossible, of course, but charming in its imaginative detail); a flat planet with rivers flowing over the edges; an abandoned city haunted by "incandescent globes" bobbing "searchingly in and out of the hollow eyes of the abandoned buildings" (111); and the forest dwelling crustaceans who converse in harmonious music.
I could not help but notice that the ecosystems of the planets in these stories consist mostly of fierce carnivores, with little attention given to herbivores or non-carniverous plants. But one must be fair. How many pulp writers of the thirties could reasonably be expected to have advanced knowledge of ecology? _Twin Worlds_ (1967) is the fourth collection of the journeys of Professor Jameson and his mechanical Zorome companions. They are the last three stories in the series to be published in _Amazing_. Neil R. Jones would publish other Professor Jameson stories, but only in magazines like _Astonishing_ and _Super Science Stories_. The overall quality of the later pieces is not as good. The stories are "Twin Worlds" (April, 1937), "On the Planet Fragment" (October, 1937), and "The Music Monsters" (April, 1938). The style of all three stories is a bit straightforward and rough. But they have an old fashioned sense of humanitarianism and brotherhood that is sadly lacking in today's world of fanatical extremism. The heroes help other creatures in need-- an exiled ruler in the first story and races bedeviled by brutal predators in the last two. Give this collection a try. The stories aren't classics by any stretch of the imagination, but they are readable entries from the olden days of _Amazing_, just before the dawn of John W. Campbell and the golden age of _Astounding_.
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