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Loading... The Makeshift Rocket / Un-Man and Other Novellas (Ace Double F-139)by Poul Anderson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. F/SF Un-Man deserves your attention. Everything else is a gift. First published in the early fifties, it was a time when Anderson was deeply political. Ripped right from Wikipedia: "In the early years of the Cold War—when he had been, as described by his later, more conservative self, a "flaming liberal"—Anderson pinned his hopes on the United Nations developing into a true world government. This is especially manifest in "Un-man", a future thriller where the Good Guys are agents of the UN Secretary General working to establish a world government while the Bad Guys are nationalists (especially American nationalists) who seek to preserve their respective nations' sovereignty at all costs. (The title has a double meaning: the hero is literally a UN man and has superhuman abilities which make his enemies fear him as an "un-man")." It was a different world. no reviews | add a review
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