- Science Fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, general
When racial hatred turns to murderous menace . . . First a rocket ship loses its engines on take-off and is destroyed. On board - an important extra-terrestrial visitor. Next someone slams into the sealed vehicle used for transporting aliens around in the lethal atmosphere of Earth.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Brunner
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- J'Ai Lu, BALLANTINE, Penguin
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782277118480
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John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
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