- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Fontana; 4612 edition (29 Jan 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006146120
- ISBN-13: 978-0006146124
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,399,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
First a rocket ship loses it's engines on take-off and is destroyed. On board - an important extra-terresrial visitor.
Next someone slams into the sealed vehicle used for transporting aliens around in the lethal atmosphere of Earth.
Then the vital controlled enviroment for the Tau Cetian delegation is sabotaged. Oxygen leaks in, and the aliens are half burnt alive.
Even if it means brutal murder, The Stars Are For Man League is determined to shatter the harmony between Earth and civilisations on the other planets - and to keep mankind supreme among the alien life forms. Only one man can stop them - a man who unknowingly nurses a viper in his bosom...
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A great read from start to finish!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great adventure
13 Oct 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Long Result is set in the mid-distant future, with aliens contacted and earth having one government and two colonies. The hero, Roald Vincent, is a foreign affairs / state department official who is investigating a sudden resurgence in inter-species hatred - at the same time as wrestling with personal problems. The fanatical Stars are for Man League is trying to destroy the good relations between humanity and other species.
This is straightforward Brunner, without the parallel plots of his more complex novels, but it is a great adventure story, with some suprising twists. There are some slightly odd plot inconsistenices, but I have probably only noticed them because I re-read the book so often!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
THE LONG RESULT
1 Dec 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
THE LONG RESULT
In an advanced society racism rears its ugly head and alien visitors are the targets. Who are the conspirators and why the hatred?
John Brunner weaves a terrific tale; he manages to capture the reader's attention with his subtle yet potent prose. The book's ebb and flow rides on a undercurrent of social unrest.
Starhome is a space colony formed by earth. Space colonies are expected to be just that; a space colony. Starhome is much more. Looking to break away from earth and form a separate nation in space, Starhome concocts a plan to disrupt the peace of earth: The Stars Are For Man League. The League is a front to keep the politicians busy while Starhome prepares to ask for its freedom.
This was a terrific book and a book, which tackles the subject of racism and hatred. John Brunner wrote this book in 1965, so some of the science and technology are dated but the subject remains fresh and relevant.
I highly recommend this book.
In an advanced society racism rears its ugly head and alien visitors are the targets. Who are the conspirators and why the hatred?
John Brunner weaves a terrific tale; he manages to capture the reader's attention with his subtle yet potent prose. The book's ebb and flow rides on a undercurrent of social unrest.
Starhome is a space colony formed by earth. Space colonies are expected to be just that; a space colony. Starhome is much more. Looking to break away from earth and form a separate nation in space, Starhome concocts a plan to disrupt the peace of earth: The Stars Are For Man League. The League is a front to keep the politicians busy while Starhome prepares to ask for its freedom.
This was a terrific book and a book, which tackles the subject of racism and hatred. John Brunner wrote this book in 1965, so some of the science and technology are dated but the subject remains fresh and relevant.
I highly recommend this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Mysteries, intrigue and coy humor abound!
19 July 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The sixth Brunner novel I've read and I'm still impressed with his skill in forming detailed and intriguing plots in less than 200 pages. The Long Result wowed me for 180 wonderful pages. Not only is this plot continually unfolding until the last page but Brunner sauces the sparse novel with tongue-in-cheek humor, which had me shaking my finger at the coy author.
The rear cover of the book reads:
"Who wanted the aliens-dead? The crisis broke on a morning when bureaucrat Roald Vincent received a piece of fanatic hate mail - and uncovered a pattern of interstellar terrorism and attempted murder. Who were the lunatics who would kill humans to destroy Earth's friendly visitors? What were the shadowy spy plans of the delegation from Earth's totalitarian colony, Starhome? Why did Vincent's government superiors do nothing to stop the conspiracy? And where did Anovel, the enigmatic Regulan, fit into the complex and deadly plot? Vincent had to put the pieces together - for the long result could change human destiny... and the short result could kill him.
While the synopsis may be 1980s-quality reader-mongering, the actual story is, indeed, complex. One mystery leads to another successive mystery and all the clues pile onto one another until some conclusions can be drawn, not only by the characters investigating these mysteries, but by the reader, too! It may be a tad predictable or perhaps I was just so keen to figure it all out before Brunner got to the point of revealing his conclusions. All the solved mysteries were satisfactory and all the reserved humor was refreshing. For example, my favorite paraphrased paragraph in the book reads "She launched into an interesting survey of my immediate ancestry and I learned the technical names for several kinds of congenital mental deficiency and twenty symptoms for pigheaded obtuseness."
Compared with Brunner's other works, the plot is shaped around one man, his genius and his intuitions, akin to Bedlam Planet and Polymath. Yet the politics is an aspect of a Brunner novel I haven't encountered before and I must say that Brunner tackled it artfully, where as I usually find bureaucratic plots lackluster. Brunner's keen eye for plot detail, in alien and human relationships and a thoughtfulness to keep the writing refreshing allows me to enjoy reading his older novels, which are new to me.
The rear cover of the book reads:
"Who wanted the aliens-dead? The crisis broke on a morning when bureaucrat Roald Vincent received a piece of fanatic hate mail - and uncovered a pattern of interstellar terrorism and attempted murder. Who were the lunatics who would kill humans to destroy Earth's friendly visitors? What were the shadowy spy plans of the delegation from Earth's totalitarian colony, Starhome? Why did Vincent's government superiors do nothing to stop the conspiracy? And where did Anovel, the enigmatic Regulan, fit into the complex and deadly plot? Vincent had to put the pieces together - for the long result could change human destiny... and the short result could kill him.
While the synopsis may be 1980s-quality reader-mongering, the actual story is, indeed, complex. One mystery leads to another successive mystery and all the clues pile onto one another until some conclusions can be drawn, not only by the characters investigating these mysteries, but by the reader, too! It may be a tad predictable or perhaps I was just so keen to figure it all out before Brunner got to the point of revealing his conclusions. All the solved mysteries were satisfactory and all the reserved humor was refreshing. For example, my favorite paraphrased paragraph in the book reads "She launched into an interesting survey of my immediate ancestry and I learned the technical names for several kinds of congenital mental deficiency and twenty symptoms for pigheaded obtuseness."
Compared with Brunner's other works, the plot is shaped around one man, his genius and his intuitions, akin to Bedlam Planet and Polymath. Yet the politics is an aspect of a Brunner novel I haven't encountered before and I must say that Brunner tackled it artfully, where as I usually find bureaucratic plots lackluster. Brunner's keen eye for plot detail, in alien and human relationships and a thoughtfulness to keep the writing refreshing allows me to enjoy reading his older novels, which are new to me.
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