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Summary: story descends into jibberish after a good start...
Review: 'Wolfbane' is a mess of a story, which is extremely disappointing since the authors (Kornbluth and Pohl) have produced one of best science fiction novels ever - 'The Space Merchants'. 'Wolfbane' fails from so many perspectives: completely implausible story, very inconsistent (and often horrible) writing, and characterizations which are weak. I am being generous by judging this book as two stars.
As for the story, we have our beloved planet in turmoil two hundred years after some alien influence kills off the sun and replaces it with a "mini-sun" which burns out ever five years. Most of mankind has died off. All the remaining folks are weak, reticent drones ... with the exception of a few free individuals called wolves. This tenuous co-existence falls apart when the alien influence flexes its muscle, and we have wolves to the rescue! .... yes, the book is THAT bad. Yet the first third of the book does lay out this strange world fairly nicely. Too bad it spirals out of control very fast.
Bottom line: pretty awful. Best avoided.
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Summary: Conformity and rebellion
Review: I would never describe Wolfbane as great literature but it does have staying power. I read Wolfbane more than 35 years ago and still think of the novel's plot and ideas from time to time. It probably has the greatest appeal to young men who are feeling rebellious and nonconformist. But we all need help figuring out human nature and deciding what kind of human being we want to be. This is what makes Wolfbane a good read.
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Summary: Conformity and rebellion
Review: I would never describe Wolfbane as great literature but it does have staying power. I read Wolfbane more than 35 years ago and still think of the novel's plot and ideas from time to time. It probably has the greatest appeal to young men who are feeling rebellious and nonconformist. But we all need help figuring out human nature and deciding what kind of human being we want to be. This is what makes Wolfbane a good read.
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Summary: Dated
Review: This was a very short book. I appreciate the brevity of the writers of yore, nonetheless I felt it could have done with some fleshing out - especially at the end. Perhaps, reading it from today's perspective, I felt some of the premises to be prepostorous. It was, however, solidly written and strongly plotted.One other minor quibble, I felt like I could tell when the author's shifted from one to the other.
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Summary: hackers vs. the aliens
Review: Too bad it's out of print--an interesting angle to the invading-aliens-make-us-docile story. Worth looking for.
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Summary: hackers vs. the aliens
Review: Too bad it's out of print--an interesting angle to the invading-aliens-make-us-docile story. Worth looking for.
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