Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What, indeed, is the point of all this? Why does Abe depict people as freaks and reduce their motivations to a series of mechanical and sexual impulses? If, as the author once said, this novel is "a parable of city life," then it appears that we are a society of...
Both types of Vonnegut fans--the groupies who thrive on Vonnegut's simplistic reductions of life's problems into phrases like "So it goes," and those who go for his one-of-a-kind style and sarcastic commentary on life in the U.S.--will come away from Jailbird more than...
"That's what I love--nobody expects you to be more than you are, you know. That kind of tolerance--I didn't know it existed. I mean if you're not equal to facing everything there...you're traitor. To the human cause, justice, humanity, the lot--there's...
They are one, united in purpose. All congratulate each other on the wisdom of their foresight, and lament the ignorance and mundanity of the outside world. Oh, if only everyone knew what they know!
Bova conveys his message entertainingly. His writing is competent, if not spectacular, and while the "futuristic technology" involved--killer satellites (gasp!) and moon bases--is old hat to science fiction fans, the interplay between science and politics and the bitter metamorphosis of Chester Arthur Kinsman should keep readers interested.