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Loading... Bumsider (original 1972; edition 1972)by C. C. MacApp
Work InformationBumsider by C. C. MacApp (1972)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Though there are many SF concepts in this book, this is more a crime thriller on another planet than an SF book. It takes place on a colony planet. People fly around in anti-gravity cars. There's an enormous pink force-field barrier that divides the colony into the Insiders who live a life of leisure and the Bumsiders -- exiled prisoners and their descendants -- who struggle in near-desert conditions. The local large cat-like predator appears to be capable of reflective thought. All of these are just props in a story about one Bumsider teenager who uncovers a network of corrupt politicians and police while looking for another Bumsider who has disappeared. The plot is straight out of a hundred generic non-SF thrillers, including the shootout at the end. The writing varies wildly from chapter to chapter. Early chapters have a nice nitty-gritty realism, the middle chapters are pretty standard SF-naive, except for a brief surprisingly direct acknowledgement of sexual desire, and the final chapters are pure pulp with exclamation marks flying like bullets. Ditto typos -- misspellings jumped out at me every few pages. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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