- Paperback: 109 pages
- Publisher: Wildside Press (1 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 158715322X
- ISBN-13: 978-1587153228
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 882,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
All of Philip E High's books are simple good guy(s) vs bad guys / aliens / robots, whatever. They're always high-tech with the fine details of the science conveniently ignored. And the good guys always win in the end leaving you with a nice warm glow. Frothy they are, but always well written and re-readable time after time.
This time it's the cops versus the criminals with the mass of humanity unaware of the titanic struggle going on in their midst. Then one of the cops starts to develop psi powers. And the bad guys come to a very nasty end.
Not one of Mr High's best but if you like his stuff, you'll definitely like this.
This time it's the cops versus the criminals with the mass of humanity unaware of the titanic struggle going on in their midst. Then one of the cops starts to develop psi powers. And the bad guys come to a very nasty end.
Not one of Mr High's best but if you like his stuff, you'll definitely like this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is an unusual SF novel, set a few centuries in the future at a time when humanity has spread to a number of star systems. It begins when the hero, a technician called Maynard distinguished only by his unusual honesty, is suddenly approached by a sinister organisation who tell him that from now on he will work for them at ten times his current salary, whether he likes it or not.
Before he knows it he is forced to take sides in a civil war which has been going on for centuries, a war of which much of humanity is not even aware, even though the casulty figures are rising steadily.
But Maynard turns out to have some unusual abilities - and suddenly the balance of the secret war starts to turn ...
This edition, published by Wildside Press in 2000, is copyrighted in that year, as is the cover illustration by Ron Turner, but the book was actually first published forty years ago in 1971.
Certain aspects of the book are a little two-dimensional - the bad guys are cartoonishly evil, the science behind the events of the book is not explained in any detail at all, and the abilities which the good guys develop comes as a deus ex machina rather than with any sort of explanation. Those who are familiar with Philip Empson High's work will recognise that these issues are common to most of his books, with the partial explanation of his very best work such as "The Time Mercenaries" or Come, Hunt an Earthman (Venture SF Books)."
This story is not quite in the same league as those two, but nevertheless it is both imaginative and entertaining.
Before he knows it he is forced to take sides in a civil war which has been going on for centuries, a war of which much of humanity is not even aware, even though the casulty figures are rising steadily.
But Maynard turns out to have some unusual abilities - and suddenly the balance of the secret war starts to turn ...
This edition, published by Wildside Press in 2000, is copyrighted in that year, as is the cover illustration by Ron Turner, but the book was actually first published forty years ago in 1971.
Certain aspects of the book are a little two-dimensional - the bad guys are cartoonishly evil, the science behind the events of the book is not explained in any detail at all, and the abilities which the good guys develop comes as a deus ex machina rather than with any sort of explanation. Those who are familiar with Philip Empson High's work will recognise that these issues are common to most of his books, with the partial explanation of his very best work such as "The Time Mercenaries" or Come, Hunt an Earthman (Venture SF Books)."
This story is not quite in the same league as those two, but nevertheless it is both imaginative and entertaining.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read most of the books by this author a very long time ago, and to be truthful they now seen very dated, this does mean that they are not enjoyable, far from it.
But the action is somewhat slow, and simplified. Certainly compared to the modern authors such as Elizabeth Moon, or David Webb. In his books there is a reoccurring theme the advancement of the human race. But space opera it is not.
But the action is somewhat slow, and simplified. Certainly compared to the modern authors such as Elizabeth Moon, or David Webb. In his books there is a reoccurring theme the advancement of the human race. But space opera it is not.
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