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CV #3
A Reasonable World
When researchers accidentally release an alien lifeform, McNulty's Symbiont, into the world, the alien alters thousands of adults who produce Symbiont children, beings who punish violence with instant death but who offer heightened consciousness to those who desire it
- GenresScience FictionFiction
Hardcover
First published February 1, 1991
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About the author
Damon Knight
581 books97 followersDamon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. He is best known as the author of "To Serve Man", which was adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was a recipient of the Hugo Award, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, cofounder of the Milford Writer's Workshop, and cofounder of the Clarion Writers Workshop. Knight lived in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Kate Wilhelm.
Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. He is best known as the author of "To Serve Man", which was adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was a recipient of the Hugo Award, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, cofounder of the Milford Writer's Workshop, and cofounder of the Clarion Writers Workshop. Knight lived in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Kate Wilhelm.
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February 4, 2022
Knight, Damon. A Reasonable World. CV 3. Tor, 1991.
Damon Knight’s Sea Venture series wraps up with A Reasonable World. The mind-controlling parasites that were a localized infection in the first volume and an epidemic in the second reach pandemic status in A Reasonable World. The aliens can now enter and leave minds with much less disturbance than before, and they can and do kill anyone who intends a violent act they don’t like. For a novel that runs under 300-pages, Knight is juggling too many characters, plot elements and ideas. For me, it ends with disappointing abruptness. To give Knight his due, he does not play up the puppet-master-pod-people theme in an annoyingly obvious way, and he displays his usual scientific and technical ingenuity. 3.5 stars.
Damon Knight’s Sea Venture series wraps up with A Reasonable World. The mind-controlling parasites that were a localized infection in the first volume and an epidemic in the second reach pandemic status in A Reasonable World. The aliens can now enter and leave minds with much less disturbance than before, and they can and do kill anyone who intends a violent act they don’t like. For a novel that runs under 300-pages, Knight is juggling too many characters, plot elements and ideas. For me, it ends with disappointing abruptness. To give Knight his due, he does not play up the puppet-master-pod-people theme in an annoyingly obvious way, and he displays his usual scientific and technical ingenuity. 3.5 stars.
May 26, 2023
Una serie di filoni diversi senza alcun collegamento tra di loro, di nessuno si vede un finale, compresa la storia principale dei simbionti, di cui non si parla né dell'origine né degli sviluppi successivi.
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