Slave Ship (Pohl novel): | | ||| | First edition (publ. |Ballantine Books|) | World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias. Slave Ship by Frederik Pohl. Click here for the lowest price! Mass Market Paperback, , Slave Ship is frankly rather incoherent. I'd like to say it's a merger of Dr. Doolittle and Catch, but while those are the sorts of ideas that went into it, Pohl never puts together a coherent whole. The treatment of military bureaucracy has got to be satirical, as does Pohl's treatment of total war (currently, manicurists are being drafted since the Boy Scouts were pressed into service some time ago).
Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. excellent Science Fiction Book Club First edition with very slightly worn dust jacket rubbed to edges will despatch 1st class post in the uk. Add to Cart. Buy Now. Add to Wishlist. Item Price. $ Slave Ship. by Frederik Pohl. Slave Ship. by. Frederik Pohl. · Rating details · ratings · 18 reviews. First they cracked the codes. The big electronic calculators that handled math codes, production lines, found it simple to decipher the small but racy vocabularies of the animals. Then man had achieved the age-old dream: He could respond when his dog struggled. Slave Ship is another solid reading experience that was written by Frederik Pohl. The planet is in the midst of a religious based cold war (not officially a war though) where Vietnam and parts of Africa/Asia are at odds against the UN countries. With most of the UN population off fighting in submarine based warfare, the UN decides to learn how.
Slave Ship is frankly rather incoherent. I'd like to say it's a merger of Dr. Doolittle and Catch, but while those are the sorts of ideas that went into it, Pohl never puts together a coherent whole. The treatment of military bureaucracy has got to be satirical, as does Pohl's treatment of total war (currently, manicurists are being drafted since the Boy Scouts were pressed into service some time ago). THEN I read Slave Ship (), Frederik Pohl's 1st solo SF novel (he'd written 5 collaboratively before then), it was an extreme breath of freshness that had close to none of the clichés that Banks's novel was built on. Slave Ship (Pohl novel): | | ||| | First edition (publ. |Ballantine Books|) | World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias.
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