Buy From Amazon UK Or The US
Last year I was very impressed by Robert Reed when I read "The
Hormone Jungle" - which I picked up cheaply. I won't tell you how
much I paid for this American import but I can certainly recommend
reading it if you like an original adventure story.
The hero, Cornell, starts off as a typical sort of kid you find
in american suburbia. His Dad is a bit weird (he researches UFO
sightings), and his neighbours are normal americans. The initial
tale of Cornell growing up is well written enough to hold your
interest. The only reminder that this is a science fiction novel is
that the sky has suddenly stopped being full of stars and now shows
the other side of the Earth - as if the Earth had suddenly been
inverted inside out. The second part of the novel gets more inter
planetary as we discover more about the folded space around the
Earth. Cornell - now an adult - gets a job as one of many new
astronauts in the kind of American mission where you send out as
many people as possible and ignore the casualties. We get a classic
"survival on a new world" and "first contact" story with (I think)
new twists.
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