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Somewhere, eons past, the Seekers had begun as weapons-- cyborg war machines. Nuclear explosions and powerful lasers meant nothing to them, for each was larger than ten normal spacecraft and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive.Tags
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Upon visiting my hometown a few years ago I spotted this book in a supermarket's makeshift charity book shop stall. It was only 30p, and looked like solid science-fiction fun, so I bought it.
I could have paid some needy ragamuffin 20p to kick me in the balls, and I would have derived approximately the same amount of pleasure from the experience and saved myself 10p.
The book is easy to read, about the only good thing about it, so it didn't take me long to get through almost all of its three hundred and four pages. And yet as the pages passed nothing was really happening, and nothing kept happening. Finally, with about a page and a half to go, the plot appeared from nowhere and rapidly resolved itself. This really could have been a five show more page short story and still featured just as much character and plot development. Instead it's a drawn out drudgery of a novel which went straight back to a charity shop. show less
I could have paid some needy ragamuffin 20p to kick me in the balls, and I would have derived approximately the same amount of pleasure from the experience and saved myself 10p.
The book is easy to read, about the only good thing about it, so it didn't take me long to get through almost all of its three hundred and four pages. And yet as the pages passed nothing was really happening, and nothing kept happening. Finally, with about a page and a half to go, the plot appeared from nowhere and rapidly resolved itself. This really could have been a five show more page short story and still featured just as much character and plot development. Instead it's a drawn out drudgery of a novel which went straight back to a charity shop. show less
Upon visiting my hometown a few years ago I spotted this book in a supermarket's makeshift charity book shop stall. It was only 30p, and looked like solid science-fiction fun, so I bought it.
I could have paid some needy ragamuffin 20p to kick me in the balls, and I would have derived approximately the same amount of pleasure from the experience and saved myself 10p.
The book is easy to read, about the only good thing about it, so it didn't take me long to get through almost all of its three hundred and four pages. And yet as the pages passed nothing was really happening, and nothing kept happening. Finally, with about a page and a half to go, the plot appeared from nowhere and rapidly resolved itself. This really could have been a five show more page short story and still featured just as much character and plot development. Instead it's a drawn out drudgery of a novel which went straight back to a charity shop. show less
I could have paid some needy ragamuffin 20p to kick me in the balls, and I would have derived approximately the same amount of pleasure from the experience and saved myself 10p.
The book is easy to read, about the only good thing about it, so it didn't take me long to get through almost all of its three hundred and four pages. And yet as the pages passed nothing was really happening, and nothing kept happening. Finally, with about a page and a half to go, the plot appeared from nowhere and rapidly resolved itself. This really could have been a five show more page short story and still featured just as much character and plot development. Instead it's a drawn out drudgery of a novel which went straight back to a charity shop. show less
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Author Jack Williamson was born in Bisbee, Arizona on April 29, 1908. In the 1950's, he received both his BA and MA degress in English from Eastern New Mexico University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Colorado, he taught linguistics, the modern novel and literary criticism at Eastern New Mexico University until he retired in 1977. show more At the age of 20, he published his first story, The Metal Man, in a December 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. Since then he has written more than 50 novels and at least 15 short story collections. Some of his best known works are The Humanoids, The Legion of Time, Manseed, and Lifeburst. He also published numerous collaborations with fellow science fiction author Frederik Pohl. He received numerous awards including the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award. He was an inaugural inductee in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1976. He died at his home in Portales, New Mexico on November 10, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1984
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