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Simak's time is the simplest thing is not a good book.

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Quality


Hes got a unique yet easytoread writing style paints vivid pictures in the mind and has a knack for taking the almostmundane an...  Read More


Im struck by how well it describes the unreasoning fear of our times while focusing on a fictional time of great paranoia and i...  Read More


Some of his technology is dated but his characters are timeless


Every book ive read by simac has been good often with science that wasnt even proven when his book was written

Price


At one point he loses his wallet and the 15 in it


Later with no indication of how he got it he has 15 again

Packaging/appearance


There is so much packed into so short a space

Competitiveness


And simak has concocted both the pros and cons of its usageall profoundly plausible


A megacorporation named fishhook holds a monopoly on this method of space travel and uses it to find and develop alien technolo...  Read More


I guess you could say fishhook is like if the technocracy lost to the mages but then joined up and the void engineers went to t...  Read More


A company fishhook has made a business of exploiting discovered technology while the rest of humanity fearful of those few with...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    alien, human, good, written and paranormal.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is low.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 63.1% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 662 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 31 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A story that begins with a dead end


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    The writing could have been better


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The protagonist is on the run from danger but there are not even hints at the reason he is in danger until 1312 way through the book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ir robs the story of drama needed to truly empathize with the protagonist


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There are also several logical inconsistencies in the story


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    At one point he loses his wallet and the 15 in it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Later with no indication of how he got it he has 15 again


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It would seem though that the weak link in any idea whose time has come is the ordinary human brain that it has emerged from

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