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Colin Free

Author of The Soft Kill

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Also includes: Colin Lewis (2)

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Also writes under the pseudonym Colin Lewis.

Works by Colin Free

The Soft Kill (1973) 16 copies, 1 review
Vinegar Hill (1978) 5 copies
The Weather in the Underworld [short fiction] 4 copies
Ironbark (1976) 2 copies
A walk among the Wheeneys 1 copy
Nightmares of the old obscenity master 1 copy
Golden Grin (1980) 1 copy
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World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 (1977) — Contributor — 112 copies, 3 reviews
The first Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction (1968) — Contributor — 56 copies, 1 review

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Also writes under the pseudonym Colin Lewis.

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The Soft Kill by Colin Free
The Soft Kill is an interesting premise, bio-engineering for population control in a "Prisoner" -esque setting. But, the writing just fell flat for me. It read like a TV drama; not much back story and not character driven at all. The whole story was almost all action sequences, and I had trouble following what was happening because Free doesn't describe inner-monologue or motives. Things just sort of happen. The story was also uncomfortably racist and misogynistic. After learning that Colin show more Free was really a writer of screenplays, I can understand why the novel seemed more like a television episode. show less
Apr 11, 2014

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