These (there are two!) are mood books; if you poke at the scenery or try to make the world-building make sense you're going to wind up covered in paper mache and regret. There are moments in them when the mood works anyway.
I remember this book as a Bad Book (from a literary standpoint) trying to be a Good Book (from an ethical standpoint). I read it at uni.
Now, with Jewish relatives by marriage in Montreal, the lack of Canadian People of David would have stood out much more. Also, as a Jew myself, it's weird that they would have ended up calling themselves or being known as People of David, because religiously, David is not a big deal. He's not one of the Patriarchs, and he's not Moses. He was a great war leader and a symbol of the glory and ethical traps of being king, and of course a great poet/musician, but he seems to me much more important to Christians (because of the tendency to identify Jesus as being of the line of David). Maybe that's the point, that other people call them the People of David.
There's a sculpture of a giant blue termite visible from Rt 95 in Rhode Island. A contest was held a while back to name it, and the winner was 'Nibbles Woodaway'.
The title of this book reminds me of it, in a it-reads-like-a-pun-but-is-it-really-one? kind of way.
a great bad book. or maybe I first read it when I was less critical? I like the sequel as well, and regret that the trilogy was never finished. I kinda lump it with andre norton's _starman's son/2250 a.d._ and steven boyett's _the architech of sleep_.
according to this (tor) review, it was cited by both gygax and ward as an influence on Oed&d and gamma world respectively.
missing spaces in the second para (btwn Metis and and), and in fn.2 (btwn Mars and and)
Out send to be a trope that machinery left unattended for millennia will function better than when regularly used. Witness Norton's "No Night Without Stars", a post-apocalyptic book that also features mutated "large economy size". animals and evil white people.
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That's an impressively terrible cover.
These (there are two!) are mood books; if you poke at the scenery or try to make the world-building make sense you're going to wind up covered in paper mache and regret. There are moments in them when the mood works anyway.
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Now, with Jewish relatives by marriage in Montreal, the lack of Canadian People of David would have stood out much more. Also, as a Jew myself, it's weird that they would have ended up calling themselves or being known as People of David, because religiously, David is not a big deal. He's not one of the Patriarchs, and he's not Moses. He was a great war leader and a symbol of the glory and ethical traps of being king, and of course a great poet/musician, but he seems to me much more important to Christians (because of the tendency to identify Jesus as being of the line of David). Maybe that's the point, that other people call them the People of David.
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Is that _Captain_ Klootz?
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The title of this book reminds me of it, in a it-reads-like-a-pun-but-is-it-really-one? kind of way.
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I doubt I'd even get through it today (so many better books, so little time).
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according to this (tor) review, it was cited by both gygax and ward as an influence on Oed&d and gamma world respectively.
missing spaces in the second para (btwn Metis and and), and in fn.2 (btwn Mars and and)
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