Space war blues
by Richard A. Lupoff
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Man's questing nature conquered space ... then his eternal stupidity turned it into living hell ... On Yurakosi - where swashbuckling aborigines ride the colossal membrane-ships, buck-naked to the winds of space ... On N'Yu-Atlantchi - where tiny gelatinous angels are ripped from a crystal cavern paradise to be brutally used as pawns of war ... On N'Haiti - where ultramodern technology marries voodoo to sire a race of blond-haired, black-skinned killer zombies ... and On New Alabama - where show more a government spokesperson recently announced: No cruvvelin black animan nigra goin lay one filthy paw on some golden curly-headed surn baby while Pissfire Pallbox draws breath! Are you with me? show lessTags
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This is a novel-length adaptation of the short story 'With the Bentfin Boomer Boys in Li'l old New Alabama' which appeared in Harlan Ellison's 'Again, Dangerous Visions'. This takes a tired old trope - militaristic sf - and gives it a different twist with a) the interstellar war being between two human colonies, one Confederate American and the other French-colonised Afro-Caribbean, and b) the Confederate American segments being written wholly in dialect.
Odd fact - the UK paperback was twice as thick but had no additional material.
Odd fact - the UK paperback was twice as thick but had no additional material.
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Richard Allen Lupoff was born on February 21, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the University of Miami. His main work was in science fiction and mystery, but he also wrote humor and satire, nonfiction and reviews. He also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He was best known for co-editing fanzine XERO, which won a Hugo Award in 1963, show more with his wife Pat Lupoff and Bhob Stewart. In his early career he worked as a technical writer. His first book was a biography published in 1965, Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. In 1967, he began publishing fiction works, One Million Centuries was the first. Some of his other works include Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971), Sword of the Demon (1977), The Triune Man (1976), Space War Blues (1978), Into the Aether (1974), the Twin Planet series, Circumpolar! (1987), and the Sun's End series, Sun's End (1984), and Galaxy's End (1988). He sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms, using Addison E. Steele for Buck Rogers tie-ins, and Ova Hamlet for parodies of famous science fiction authors. Richard Lupoff died on October 22, 2020 in California. He was 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Jiritzu in his own way did not see that the membrane ships closely resembled the clippers that long ago plied the living oceans of earth, those mighty windjammers that stood so tall above the ever-moving bring, their shafty m... (show all)asts thrusting canvas squares high into earth's salt-tanged air.
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