Sidney's Comet

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Summary: One of the most bizarre futures imaginable.
Review: I found this odd book on someone's favorite book list ... Since that person liked a lot of other books I liked, I figured I'd give it a look. What I found was one of the most bizarre futures (600 years hence) imaginable. I couldn't figure out if Herbert was trying to make a twisted anti-consumerism Brave New World or what, but all of a sudden I realized - this is a ... good story. The premise, about a "garbage comet", was really almost incidental to the story and should not be considered a negative.

Rating:
Summary: One of the most bizarre futures imaginable.
Review: I found this odd book on someone's favorite book list ... Since that person liked a lot of other books I liked, I figured I'd give it a look. What I found was one of the most bizarre futures (600 years hence) imaginable. I couldn't figure out if Herbert was trying to make a twisted anti-consumerism Brave New World or what, but all of a sudden I realized - this is a ... good story. The premise, about a "garbage comet", was really almost incidental to the story and should not be considered a negative.

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Summary: great book
Review: the story of earth 400 years to the future. sidney a lowly govermental worker is picked in order to save the universe from a giant comet of garbage. a wonderful and funny look of the world of the future where economy is every thing and imortality can be achieved just by believing.

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Summary: great book!
Review: This book is not only good and witty sci. fi., it is also aparody of the American obsessiopn with consumer's society and endlesscommercials. How would you like to live in a society where great majority of people has brain implants who emit signals for example of being itchy when there is a commercial for spray to ease itching, and symptoms subside as soon as you order the spray etc.