Mr. Caidin has invented a new literary form: the electronic novel. He substitutes communications devices, computers, guidance systems and launching specifications for those homely old paragraphs of food, love and labor that used to hold our interest.
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Plot-driven, unpretentious, grave and resolved.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Martin Caidin
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Corgi, Dutton, Lingen Verlag
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English, German
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