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Digest-size magazine with short stories/science fiction. ... Read more

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Classic with little Sci-Fi
The literary quality of this book is marvelous. Budrys takes the reader deep into the characters to face their internal conflicts. While I enjoy the character-driven narration of Rogue Moon, as opposed to societal conflict or a purely plot-driven narration, the science fiction is limited. The novel deals with the idea of teleportation with wonderful rationale and science, but the moon the novel is so named after is only talked about until the final 17 pages, due to the third-person-limited narration that reports only what the scientist who built the machine experiences. The character who actually steps on to the moon dozens of times throughout the novel only gives one sketchy report to the scientist that the reader is allowed to overhear, and then we are taken back into the earth-bound life and self-analysis of Hawks, the main character. I enjoy a pensive read, but I had picked this book up hoping to find myself in some fantastical world of great imagining, but I was just stuck on earth with a handful of relatively normal people with suicidal and homicidal tendencies. ... Read more

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Vol. 17, No. 4. Cover by Morrow for "The Road to the Rim" by A. Bertram Chandler. Includes "Retief, War Criminal" (novelette) by Keith Laumer; "The Ethics of Madness" (novelette) by Larry Niven; "The Iron Thorn" (pt. 4 of 4) by Algis Budrys; "The Fantasque" by James McKimmey; "It Takes All Kinds" by Bruce W. Ronald; "The Accomplice" by Vernor Vinge; "The Purpose of It All" by W. I. Johnstone. Feature: "It's New York in '67!" by Lin Carter. Illustrated by Morrow, Gaughan, and Castellon. ... Read more

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Hard Landing By Algis Budry
Hard Landing begins with report of an electocuted man found lying on the tracks of the Burrow Street station in Shoreview, Illinois. The story Budrys goes on to tell is a tale ripped from the pages of a supermarket tabloid. A starship crash lands in a New Jersey swamp, its passengers, human in appearence, scatter, each forced to find their own way in an alien world, living the rest of their lives among the human race.

Like much of Budys' best work of the 1960s, Hard Landing expounds on the nature of identity, following its cheif protagonist, Jack Mullica, through a series of adventures after his initial crash landing.

Hard Landing is a welcome addition to Budrys' small but impressive collection of work. Hopefully Budrys, who has never been the most prolific of writers, will not go another fifteen years before releasing his next.

Stolen Review....At least I admit it ! ... Read more

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Digest-size magazine with short stories- Science Fiction. ... Read more