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Van Vogtian tale, where a guild using Absolute Laws and
Magic opposes an intricate technological civilization, and a
third force sorts them both out. (Macfadden)
Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room! A marvelously
saddening novel, the most effective warning ever against
over-population, and consequently for birth-control. Ham-
son's story of New York in 1999, crammed with thirty-five
million people leading substandard lives, needs no gimmicks
or sudden catastrophes, relying on compressed emotion and
strong atmospheric detail for its effect. (Doubleday)
Fred Hoyle: October the First Is Too Late. A wonderful
idea crippled by inadequate handling. Hoyle must be given all
the credit for a novel and broad-screen twist on the hoary
time travel theme. Here we have different parts of the globe
existing in different eras at the same time. We are teased to
attention at modern Britain looking with horror across the
channel where the First World War is still in progress, but we
no sooner face the problem than we are whipped away. If Mr.
Hoyle had only worked harder and gone into the detail and
extrapolation needed for this kind of book he might very well
have written a modern masterpiece. As it is, he writes lyrically
for the first time. (Harper & Row)
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon. Remarkable, beauti-
ful, and penetrating novel about the gentle moron who
becomes something like the world's greatest genius, and then
charts his own descent down into the intellectual depths again.
"The message is rather schmaltzy: maybe you're a nicer guy as
a moron; which may account for its success (as a short story,
in translation, as TV drama, as film, now as novel); but for all
that, its fine qualities of pity and intelligence make it one of
the year's, possibly decade's best. (Harcourt, Brace and
World)
John Norman: Tamsman of Gor. Another long Burroughs-
like series begins, certain to wow the fans and bore the
eggheads. This first dose of the saga of Tarl Cabot on
Counter-Earth reveals itself to be decently written and a bit
less camp than you might expect. (Ballantine)
Edgar Pangborn: The Judgment of Eve. After the Holo-
caust (jacket blurb's capitalization) again, and well-plowed
ground it is. In a most civilized way, Pangborn uses the
setting only as a stage for his characters to ask many
questions about Life (reviewers' capitalization) and it is to his
credit that he manages to sustain interest to the very end. A
weak book from a strong writer, yet enjoyable nevertheless.
(Simon & Schuster)
Mack Reynolds: Of Godlike Power. Another excellent
polemical novel by a neglected novelist. In this one, Reynolds
has his tone just right. The story of a prophet of a new
religion opposed by a cheapskate radio announcer never
becomes too stodgy or whimsical and, marvelously, prophet