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Summary: The very best SF anywhere!
Review: This was the first "future history" I had read. I got a copy of the four-in-one-volume edition when I was in high school, and have read it many times since. I've read a great deal of SF, and this is among the very best. It is certainly the very best SF dealing with space flight. This is an essential in any SF collection.
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Summary: Hobos in space
Review: When the 'Okie novels' were written we humans mostly had an entirely misplaced vision of the 'future' we're all living now. We were going to be living in domed cities, each having his own airplane and living on pills. Hobo cities in space were far easier to believe, and early SF was about predicting how we'd be living in the future, things that 'might happen'. But while the Okie Cities concept is no longer valid, SFs changed to accomodate it. Finally we can just relax and enjoy a great writer and a series of yarns to take you away from the future you're having to live as we never believed it would be.That's what I recommend you do.
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Summary: Hobos in space
Review: When the 'Okie novels' were written we humans mostly had an entirely misplaced vision of the 'future' we're all living now. We were going to be living in domed cities, each having his own airplane and living on pills. Hobo cities in space were far easier to believe, and early SF was about predicting how we'd be living in the future, things that 'might happen'. But while the Okie Cities concept is no longer valid, SFs changed to accomodate it. Finally we can just relax and enjoy a great writer and a series of yarns to take you away from the future you're having to live as we never believed it would be. That's what I recommend you do.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Yes, this was written many years ago and as such some of the details would be different if written today--big deal. Like much greate science fiction this is a novel of people and ideas and in many ways, still as relevant today as it was then. Still a great read if you love science fiction.
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