Phoenix Without Ashes

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Summary: A book that leaves you waiting for next weeks episode!
Review: Phoenix Without Ashes is the novelization of Harlan Ellison's ill fated TV venture from the early 1970's. If you missed the short lived science fiction series from Canada you might want to pick up this book. The novel is not written from the television show script, but rather from Mr. Ellison's award winning teleplay. Be warned this book ends with you wanting more, and as a first book in a series this would be superb, but there are no others. Much better than catching an old rerun of the Starlost!

Rating:
Summary: A book that leaves you waiting for next weeks episode!
Review: Phoenix Without Ashes is the novelization of Harlan Ellison's ill fated TV venture from the early 1970's. If you missed the short lived science fiction series from Canada you might want to pick up this book. The novel is not written from the television show script, but rather from Mr. Ellison's award winning teleplay. Be warned this book ends with you wanting more, and as a first book in a series this would be superb, but there are no others. Much better than catching an old rerun of the Starlost!

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Summary: i normally don't like collaborations, BUT . . .!
Review: Read this book, and see why Harlan Ellison, the best short story writer ever, also got an award for best screenplay. The book is the screenplay in novel format, but I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! The basic storyline is this (I got to tell you something because only one other person has commented on this book, which is really sad.): In outer space there is a spaceship consisting of tons of biospheres. Each biosphere contains a culture, but these cultures have no contact amongst themselves. In fact, they've been in space so long that they don't even know they're in space! They think that the biosphere is the world! Anyway, in this one biosphere, an exiled man is driven away for his heretical preachings. A large man-hunt takes place . . . and that's when things REALLY get interesting and you finish this book in one sitting. The writing is excellently done. The chapters end with bangs, the characters act and do things that actually bring out all sorts of emotions in you. When you finish this book, all you can say is WOW! I've read it once, but I KNOW I'm going to read it again . . . and again, etc. This book deserves more than four stars, even more than five. All Harlan fans must read this.

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Summary: Orphans of the Sky Retread anyone???
Review: This is obviously, to put it politely, "inspired by" a Heinlein novel called Orphans of the Sky... a good short novel, by the way. Ellison has essentially lifted the idea and expanded upon it, but really shouldn't get a lot of credit for the idea. Not original at all.

Rating:
Summary: Orphans of the Sky Retread anyone???
Review: This is obviously, to put it politely, "inspired by" a Heinlein novel called Orphans of the Sky... a good short novel, by the way. Ellison has essentially lifted the idea and expanded upon it, but really shouldn't get a lot of credit for the idea. Not original at all.