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Summary: Light, fun, tongue in cheek SF
Review: Light, fun, SF story that will mean more to SF fans in general and Asimov fans in particular. I highly recommend it. I read it every few years and enjoy it each time. Not really a sorcery book and certainly not fantasy. The story involves a culture that embodies Clarke's statement on magic and technology and how easy it is to assign magical reasons to that which we don't understand.
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Summary: Sci-Fi & Comedy blended with hard science, a fun read!
Review: My paperback copy of this book lists two authors, David Gerrold & Larry Niven. This book is great fun. Imagine the all-powerful earthling with very high-tech tools come to study the backward natives. Now see the story from the natives' viewpoint. Now watch as the natives reduce the earthling to stone-age tools and see if he can survive on his wits alone. Maybe? Maybe not. For Niven fans, a must-read!!
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Summary: Fine work
Review: This book is really a great work if you realize what it is, comical sci-fi. And it is not a Niven story but a Gerrold one, if you liked The Trouble With Tribbles episode of Star Trek then this for you.To dananbethany> It's a pun, As a mauve. Asimov.
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Summary: An overlooked treasure
Review: This is one of the funniest SF books out there. I've got an old tattered copy, and I will order the new edition when it comes out. The book is full of cultural, SF and fandom references. Some might be a little dated (for example, the symbol of the sheep, the horned box, is a reference to a TV with antenna, and how many people have seen one of THOSE lately?), but overall, this book holds up very well. To answer another reviewer's question would be a spoiler, but anyone who wishes to know who Purple was based on can email me at my nickname at hotmail.
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Summary: An overlooked treasure
Review: This is one of the funniest SF books out there. I've got an old tattered copy, and I will order the new edition when it comes out. The book is full of cultural, SF and fandom references. Some might be a little dated (for example, the symbol of the sheep, the horned box, is a reference to a TV with antenna, and how many people have seen one of THOSE lately?), but overall, this book holds up very well. To answer another reviewer's question would be a spoiler, but anyone who wishes to know who Purple was based on can email me at my nickname at hotmail.
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Summary: Shade of purple-gray
Review: Will someone please figure out how to keep Gerrold's books in print? Especially this one. Easily one of the most entertaining mixed-genre Fantasy/SF novels ever written, it is also one of the hardest to find. It's not exactly like Asprin or Xanth but ... if you go for that, or for cleverly funny Fantasy/SF in general, put this book on your list. Well worth looking for.
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Summary: Shade of purple-gray
Review: Will someone please figure out how to keep Gerrold's books in print? Especially this one. Easily one of the most entertaining mixed-genre Fantasy/SF novels ever written, it is also one of the hardest to find. It's not exactly like Asprin or Xanth but ... if you go for that, or for cleverly funny Fantasy/SF in general, put this book on your list. Well worth looking for.
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