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duplicated man

Friday Fiction-The Duplicated Man

July 26, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 6 comments

The Duplicated Man
Blish and Lowndes
1976 (original copyright 1959)

I picked this up as a used book because I thought the cover looked cool. (I am a sucker for interesting cover art.) I get a kick out of how science fiction from the old days, “predict” futures and technology.

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Taurus 4 Fiction

Friday Fiction: Taurus Four

October 26, 2018 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 7 comments

Taurus Four Vale 1970 I am always attracted to cover art and this one grabbed my attention right away. I am not sure, but this cover qualifies as weird enough. In this story, a sociologist is stranded on a planet

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world swappers cover

Friday Fiction: World Swappers

January 5, 2018 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 15 comments

World Swappers Brunner 1959 Who wouldn’t want to pick up and read this book with Frederik Pohl’s lukewarm endorsement on the cover? I cracked up at the marketing genius who thought this kind of statement would make a great book

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Galactic Aliens cover

Friday Fiction – Galactic Aliens

December 15, 2017 Holly Friday Fiction 6 comments

Galactic Aliens Frank 1979 Submitter: A student brought the following book to our attention for review and weeding…because he wanted it. Why is this book awful? Well, it is a book that claims to be the most important book since

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alien pets cover art

Alien Pets – Friday Fiction

February 17, 2017 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 6 comments

Alien Pets Little, ed. 1998 This is an anthology of some decent science fiction/fantasy authors. Not necessarily a weeder at all, but this poor volume had some serious water damage on the inside. Sci-fi and fantasy is usually a good

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Hong on the Range cover

Friday Fiction – Hong on the Range

May 27, 2016 Holly Friday Fiction 12 comments

Hong on the Range Wu 1989 Submitter: We came across this 1989 copyright doozie awhile ago while we were doing our first major weed.  It has been stored in our favorite weed collection for a few years now.  It features

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Boy with Dinosaur Hands cover

Friday Fiction: Boy with the Dinosaur Hands

February 5, 2016 Holly For the Kids, Friday Fiction 10 comments

The Boy with Dinosaur Hands: Nine Tales of the Real and Unreal Carusone 1998 Submitter: There are so many things going on with this book…a kid with dinosaur hands, horrible writing, crazy chapter titles, and the illustrations!  The worst part

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Fratercide is a Gas - cover

Fratricide is a GAS!

October 30, 2015 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 11 comments

Fratricide is a Gas Gutteridge 1975 Our guy Dilke is the first to be miniaturized to help earth solve over crowding problems. Essentially, everyone needs to get small so there is more room. Dilke is a “microagent” and is looking

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