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Doomstar
Classic Science Fiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1966
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Edmond Hamilton
1,047 books137 followersEdmond Moore Hamilton was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels throughout the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated high school and started college (Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania) at the age of 14--but washed out at 17. He was the Golden Age writer who worked on Batman, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and many sci-fi books.
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June 26, 2017
As I have mentioned elsewhere, sci-fi pulpmaster Edmond Hamilton, during the early decades of his career, destroyed so many planets in his stories that he managed to acquire for himself the nickname "World Wrecker." But in his final novel, "Doomstar," the destruction of a mere planet seemed to be small potatoes for the Ohio-born author, and nothing less than the death--or, in this case, the poisoning--of a solar body would suffice! "Doomstar" was initially released as a 50-cent Belmont paperback in January 1966, almost 40 years after Hamilton's first story had appeared in "Weird Tales" magazine. (I was fortunate enough to acquire the 1969 Belmont paperback, also with a cover price of 50 cents.) Hamilton was 62 when he released his final novel, and I am happy to report that the beloved writer went out in style. He had long credited the input of his "kindest critic," his wife and fellow sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett, with the improvement in his authorial style after their marriage in 1946, and "Doomstar" just might be the most accomplished piece of writing that Hamilton ever did. Fortunately, this uptick in professionalism is in the service here of a most imaginative story, as well.
In "Doomstar," in a futuristic year never revealed, the reader encounters Johnny Kettrick, a former trader--and sometimes smuggler of contraband merchandise--in the Hyades star cluster. Several years before, Kettrick had been booted out of the system, and had had his trading license revoked, due to his illegal activities. But now, the Hyades is in major-league trouble, and Kettrick is called before a delegation of security men on Earth for a little discussion. Also at this meeting is Sekma, from the Dept. of Trade Regulations on Tananaru, in the Hyades; the very man responsible for Kettrick's earlier banishment. As it turns out, it is Sekma who has recommended Kettrick for a proposed mission, fully aware of the trader's superior knowledge of the star cluster, and his innumerable contacts. Kettrick learns that an obscure sun in the Hyades has suddenly turned lethal, giving off killing amounts of gamma radiation, and the suspicion is that this phenomenon is not a natural one! Could someone have discovered a means of "poisoning" a star? Kettrick is sent back to the Hyades to find out, although he has an ulterior motive at the back of his mind: to go to the distant White Star and conclude the million-credit deal that had been interrupted several years earlier. He contacts his old partner Seri Otku...who promptly tries to assassinate him! More than a little suspicious now, Kettrick follows the fleeing Seri across the cluster, accompanied by the huge and catlike Chai (think of a feline Chewbacca and you’ve got the picture), who is fanatically devoted to him; by a pair of blue-skinned Hlakran pirates; and by a monkey-faced starship engineer from Pittan. The quintet's pursuit of Seri and the operators of the Doomstar weapon lands them on four very different planets in the Hyades, before a final confrontation with the evildoers who want to hold an entire sector of space under ransom....
OK, I know I've rambled on a bit with this capsule plot description, but trust me, this is a pretty complicated story line that we have going on here, and I have barely scratched the surface in telling you about it. "Doomstar" doesn't even extend to 160 pages but it is remarkable how much action, incident, and detail Hamilton manages to compress into it. Similar to another of the author's books that I recently read, 1950's "City at World's End," the book asks us to swallow one central conceit that is pretty hard to wrap your mind around, but once you get past that, it's pretty easy sailing. In the earlier book, the author had asked us to believe that it is possible for a "super atomic" bomb to blast a hole in the time-space continuum and send a small city millions of years into the future. In the book in question, we are asked to give credence to the notion that men with the requisite cobalt missiles can shoot these things into a sun to start a cascading reaction, resulting in the doomstar of the book's title. But honestly, could this ever be done? At the novel's end, the bad guys are trying to do such a thing to that White Star, a sun very much like our own. But how could a missile ever penetrate to a sun's comparatively cool, 6,000-degree C photosphere surface, when its outlying corona would be something on the order of 1,000,000 degrees Celsius? (That is not a typo; as Paris Hilton might say, "That's hot!") Hamilton gives us some scientific gobbledygook to explain the cobalt reaction, but vouchsafes nothing regarding how such a missile could possibly enter a solar body. As I say, though, once we get past this stumbling block, there is an awful lot to enjoy here.
Whereas many novels rest content with a single feat of world building, here, Hamilton gives us nicely fleshed-out details (geography, cultures, history) regarding each of the five worlds that we visit. Thus, we take in the spectacle of Ree Darva, Kettrick's old home base on Tananaru; visit the forested world of Gurra, with its innocent-seeming, diminutive, childlike people; proceed on to the largely frozen world of Thwayne, with its gruff, fur-clad Firgal warriors; explore Achern, the chief city of Kirnanoc, with its subtly malevolent, sibilant residents; and finally, get a look at the third world of the White Star, where the troglodytic Krinn assist Kettrick & Co. in their final battle. Hamilton manages to ratchet up the tension nicely (seemingly, nobody can be trusted on any of the planets that our heroes visit), all the way to that ticking-clock finale. His style is noticeably more detailed and mature--as compared to, say, his 1940s pulp writing--and Kettrick makes for an interesting lead character, both highly competent and yet constantly wondering if he's in a bit over his head. (At one point, he thinks of himself as a "Cluster-wide disaster"; a more modern-day writer might choose some other expression starting with "Cluster," I have a feeling!)
His partners are an interesting bunch, as well, especially that superloyal but decidedly deadly Chai, and even Sekma (with whom Kettrick ultimately teams up) displays some hidden depths, such as when the Hyades alien quotes a line from "Hamlet." And Hamilton even gets to throw in a love interest for Kettrick: his old flame Larith, as mysteriously motivated a femme fatale as ever bewitched a film noir leading man. The author, as was often the case, is not afraid to use made-up words (such as "scuddering" and "thumpeting") to suit his convenience, and throws any number of pleasing grace notes into his story (such as the constantly falling white blossoms on Gurra, that resemble "a fall of snowflakes," and the interesting architecture of one of the Ree Darvan houses, "something between a Babylonian ziggurat and a dove cote...."). The book is fast moving and compulsively readable; truly, a most impressive display.
Not that everybody thinks so. For example, I recently read a blogger on another website who termed Hamilton's "Doomstar" "garbage." It's like we didn't even experience the same book. No matter, though. For this reader, half the joy of reading "Doomstar" was in finding Hamilton at the peak of his authorial powers, after a solid 40 years of unremitting work and many hundreds of short stories, novellas, serials and novels. It's true what they say about practice, I suppose, and I guess that it also doesn’t hurt to be married to the woman who had deservedly earned for herself the title "Queen of Space Opera." It occurs to me that I had a similar experience when reading G. G. Fickling's 11 Honey West novels many years ago. After the first eight poorly written books comes the ninth, "Bombshell," written in an almost Ian Fleming-like manner of excellence. How did THAT happen? Unfortunately, Fickling returned to mediocrity for the last two books in the series, whereas Hamilton, in this, his final long piece of fiction, released 11 years before his passing, went out a true pro. Very much like the sun of the apelike Krinn, his star still shines very brightly in the sci-fi firmament....
(By the way, this review originally appeared on the FanLit website at http://www.fantasyliterature.com/ ... a most ideal destination for all fans of Edmond Hamilton....)
In "Doomstar," in a futuristic year never revealed, the reader encounters Johnny Kettrick, a former trader--and sometimes smuggler of contraband merchandise--in the Hyades star cluster. Several years before, Kettrick had been booted out of the system, and had had his trading license revoked, due to his illegal activities. But now, the Hyades is in major-league trouble, and Kettrick is called before a delegation of security men on Earth for a little discussion. Also at this meeting is Sekma, from the Dept. of Trade Regulations on Tananaru, in the Hyades; the very man responsible for Kettrick's earlier banishment. As it turns out, it is Sekma who has recommended Kettrick for a proposed mission, fully aware of the trader's superior knowledge of the star cluster, and his innumerable contacts. Kettrick learns that an obscure sun in the Hyades has suddenly turned lethal, giving off killing amounts of gamma radiation, and the suspicion is that this phenomenon is not a natural one! Could someone have discovered a means of "poisoning" a star? Kettrick is sent back to the Hyades to find out, although he has an ulterior motive at the back of his mind: to go to the distant White Star and conclude the million-credit deal that had been interrupted several years earlier. He contacts his old partner Seri Otku...who promptly tries to assassinate him! More than a little suspicious now, Kettrick follows the fleeing Seri across the cluster, accompanied by the huge and catlike Chai (think of a feline Chewbacca and you’ve got the picture), who is fanatically devoted to him; by a pair of blue-skinned Hlakran pirates; and by a monkey-faced starship engineer from Pittan. The quintet's pursuit of Seri and the operators of the Doomstar weapon lands them on four very different planets in the Hyades, before a final confrontation with the evildoers who want to hold an entire sector of space under ransom....
OK, I know I've rambled on a bit with this capsule plot description, but trust me, this is a pretty complicated story line that we have going on here, and I have barely scratched the surface in telling you about it. "Doomstar" doesn't even extend to 160 pages but it is remarkable how much action, incident, and detail Hamilton manages to compress into it. Similar to another of the author's books that I recently read, 1950's "City at World's End," the book asks us to swallow one central conceit that is pretty hard to wrap your mind around, but once you get past that, it's pretty easy sailing. In the earlier book, the author had asked us to believe that it is possible for a "super atomic" bomb to blast a hole in the time-space continuum and send a small city millions of years into the future. In the book in question, we are asked to give credence to the notion that men with the requisite cobalt missiles can shoot these things into a sun to start a cascading reaction, resulting in the doomstar of the book's title. But honestly, could this ever be done? At the novel's end, the bad guys are trying to do such a thing to that White Star, a sun very much like our own. But how could a missile ever penetrate to a sun's comparatively cool, 6,000-degree C photosphere surface, when its outlying corona would be something on the order of 1,000,000 degrees Celsius? (That is not a typo; as Paris Hilton might say, "That's hot!") Hamilton gives us some scientific gobbledygook to explain the cobalt reaction, but vouchsafes nothing regarding how such a missile could possibly enter a solar body. As I say, though, once we get past this stumbling block, there is an awful lot to enjoy here.
Whereas many novels rest content with a single feat of world building, here, Hamilton gives us nicely fleshed-out details (geography, cultures, history) regarding each of the five worlds that we visit. Thus, we take in the spectacle of Ree Darva, Kettrick's old home base on Tananaru; visit the forested world of Gurra, with its innocent-seeming, diminutive, childlike people; proceed on to the largely frozen world of Thwayne, with its gruff, fur-clad Firgal warriors; explore Achern, the chief city of Kirnanoc, with its subtly malevolent, sibilant residents; and finally, get a look at the third world of the White Star, where the troglodytic Krinn assist Kettrick & Co. in their final battle. Hamilton manages to ratchet up the tension nicely (seemingly, nobody can be trusted on any of the planets that our heroes visit), all the way to that ticking-clock finale. His style is noticeably more detailed and mature--as compared to, say, his 1940s pulp writing--and Kettrick makes for an interesting lead character, both highly competent and yet constantly wondering if he's in a bit over his head. (At one point, he thinks of himself as a "Cluster-wide disaster"; a more modern-day writer might choose some other expression starting with "Cluster," I have a feeling!)
His partners are an interesting bunch, as well, especially that superloyal but decidedly deadly Chai, and even Sekma (with whom Kettrick ultimately teams up) displays some hidden depths, such as when the Hyades alien quotes a line from "Hamlet." And Hamilton even gets to throw in a love interest for Kettrick: his old flame Larith, as mysteriously motivated a femme fatale as ever bewitched a film noir leading man. The author, as was often the case, is not afraid to use made-up words (such as "scuddering" and "thumpeting") to suit his convenience, and throws any number of pleasing grace notes into his story (such as the constantly falling white blossoms on Gurra, that resemble "a fall of snowflakes," and the interesting architecture of one of the Ree Darvan houses, "something between a Babylonian ziggurat and a dove cote...."). The book is fast moving and compulsively readable; truly, a most impressive display.
Not that everybody thinks so. For example, I recently read a blogger on another website who termed Hamilton's "Doomstar" "garbage." It's like we didn't even experience the same book. No matter, though. For this reader, half the joy of reading "Doomstar" was in finding Hamilton at the peak of his authorial powers, after a solid 40 years of unremitting work and many hundreds of short stories, novellas, serials and novels. It's true what they say about practice, I suppose, and I guess that it also doesn’t hurt to be married to the woman who had deservedly earned for herself the title "Queen of Space Opera." It occurs to me that I had a similar experience when reading G. G. Fickling's 11 Honey West novels many years ago. After the first eight poorly written books comes the ninth, "Bombshell," written in an almost Ian Fleming-like manner of excellence. How did THAT happen? Unfortunately, Fickling returned to mediocrity for the last two books in the series, whereas Hamilton, in this, his final long piece of fiction, released 11 years before his passing, went out a true pro. Very much like the sun of the apelike Krinn, his star still shines very brightly in the sci-fi firmament....
(By the way, this review originally appeared on the FanLit website at http://www.fantasyliterature.com/ ... a most ideal destination for all fans of Edmond Hamilton....)
October 15, 2024
Doomstar was first published in 1966, long after the final true pulps faded away, and so is from near the end of Hamilton's career, but the pulp spirit and influence is quite evident. It's a fun, old-fashioned space opera with untrustworthy space rogues, aliens, and a weapon that destroys planets. A rogue named Kettrick and his unsavory pals have to save the universe... what else do you need?
April 1, 2013
Short, simple, and convenient. This story about an exiled man returning to his old stomping grounds in a desperate attempt to discern the truth behind rumors of star-killing device, is a quick fast paced read. Hamilton did an excellent job of squeezing a complete setting including multiple worlds, races, and a full back story into this small work. While not the most imaginative creations ever written, they do well to put forward a complete story.
The races begin to feel like a hodgepodge of humans with color changes much like you would see in different breeds of dogs, and the worlds themselves are not fully developed in any real substantial way. However, the few characters that stand out are developed very quickly and stand apart from one another distinctly.
The pacing starts out sluggish and then rapidly increases to the point that the book ends so quickly that it might leave a reader without a feeling of resolution.
Entirely predictable and very convenient the author really didn't save any surprises if a reader pays attention.
Not an unpleasant way to spend a sleepy afternoon.
The races begin to feel like a hodgepodge of humans with color changes much like you would see in different breeds of dogs, and the worlds themselves are not fully developed in any real substantial way. However, the few characters that stand out are developed very quickly and stand apart from one another distinctly.
The pacing starts out sluggish and then rapidly increases to the point that the book ends so quickly that it might leave a reader without a feeling of resolution.
Entirely predictable and very convenient the author really didn't save any surprises if a reader pays attention.
Not an unpleasant way to spend a sleepy afternoon.
May 6, 2021
Johnny Kettrick used to have it good. As a human of Earth heritage born and raised in the Hyades Cluster, and gifted with a friendly nature, he’d become a top trader between the many cultures in that crowded part of the galaxy. Unfortunately, he’d also developed a healthy disregard for trade regulations in favor of making profitable deals. That brought him to the attention of the I-C, the intracluster customs agency and the closest thing to interstellar cops in the region. Kettrick was eventually caught just before he could make his biggest deal, and exiled to Earth.
And that’s where we first meet him, in a nightclub where he and his current date are watching alien dancers perform. Laura expresses xenophobia towards the dancers, but we quickly learn we’re not supposed to find that sympathetic, Johnny is dating her because she’s not what he likes in women so he won’t let go of his true lost love. But two government men interrupt to take Kettrick elsewhere.
Turns out that Sekma, the I-C agent who got Kettrick banned, is now working with both Earth and Hyades Cluster scientists and officials on a new case. There’s a rumor of something called a “Doomstar” going around, with no solid details. But just recently, a star in the Hyades Cluster with no habitable planets changed its sequence, and is now pumping out much higher amounts of gamma radiation. If that happened to a star with habitable planets, they’d no longer be habitable. This sudden change fits the description “Doomstar” all right.
Sekma knows that Kettrick was a man with many gray market and even black market connections, and should still have many friends in the cluster even after a few years away. He wants Johnny to sneak back into Hyades and investigate, with the reward being a pardon and the ability to trade again if he succeeds in the mission. Kettrick agrees, not because he really believes in the Doomstar, or that he could find it, but so he can complete that last big score.
Kettrick gets back to Tananaru, his birth planet, and meets up with his best friend Sari and his lady love Larith. Neither looks particularly thrilled to see him, though Larith is quick to clarify that she and Sari have not hooked up. Khitu and Chai, Sari’s beast-person bodyguards, are much happier to have Johnny back. Johnny explains that he’s there for that last big score, the heartstones of the White Sun.
Sari seems somewhat startled, but agrees to allow his ship to be used for a trading voyage that will have the hidden goal of detouring to the White Sun in exchange for a cut of the profits. In the meantime, Johnny can use his boat to get to an island hideout. On the voyage, Khitu mentions that he and Chai have not been allowed to guard Sari as closely as they once did–and the boat explodes. Khitu is killed, and Kettrick badly wounded.
Pretty sure that Sari has betrayed him, but not knowing why, Kettrick decides to stay “dead.” He’s able to make contact with some other friends who have a less impressive trading ship, and he and Chai set off on a mission of revenge and greed.
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), was one of the first big space opera writers for the pulps, sometimes known as the “World Wrecker” for his planet-sized destruction sequences. He also wrote for DC Comics for a couple of decades, including early Legion of Super-Heroes tales. This 1966 novel is from his mature period.
Most of the story is taken up with Kettrick and his crew coming to a planet, setting up trade deals with the locals, then getting betrayed. It’s a distinct pattern, which leads Kettrick to the conclusion that the Doomstar, whatever it is, is real, and that Sari has something to do with it.
The short-jump faster than light drive in an independent trading starship that requires constant repair reminds me a lot of the set-up in the Traveller science fiction role-playing game, and I have to wonder if this novel was one of the influences on that.
Kettrick is more antihero than hero, being motivated more by greed and revenge than any wish to save innocent lives. On the other hand, he will go out of his way not to kill opponents even when they don’t share his qualms. (Chai, the vengeful widow, is less picky about killing, but will listen to “Jon-nee” when he tells her not to.)
Larith’s motives and allegiance remain unclear, even when she comes back into the story.
Naturally, there’s an exciting conclusion as Kettrick must use his diplomacy and trading skills to get the locals to join him in a pitched battle to stop the Doomstar.
Content note: There’s a certain amount of casual sexist attitude in the narrative (especially when it’s implied Johnny is stringing Laura along for the empty sex.) There’s also a certain amount of superior attitudes towards less technologically-developed cultures, and one race of aliens are distrusted because they smell like snakes (presumably they distrust humans for smelling like apes.)
There’s some minor logic holes to make the story wrap up neater, but overall this is a serviceable tale that will divert science fiction fans who are okay with the dated attitudes. Pulp SF fans in particular should enjoy this.
And that’s where we first meet him, in a nightclub where he and his current date are watching alien dancers perform. Laura expresses xenophobia towards the dancers, but we quickly learn we’re not supposed to find that sympathetic, Johnny is dating her because she’s not what he likes in women so he won’t let go of his true lost love. But two government men interrupt to take Kettrick elsewhere.
Turns out that Sekma, the I-C agent who got Kettrick banned, is now working with both Earth and Hyades Cluster scientists and officials on a new case. There’s a rumor of something called a “Doomstar” going around, with no solid details. But just recently, a star in the Hyades Cluster with no habitable planets changed its sequence, and is now pumping out much higher amounts of gamma radiation. If that happened to a star with habitable planets, they’d no longer be habitable. This sudden change fits the description “Doomstar” all right.
Sekma knows that Kettrick was a man with many gray market and even black market connections, and should still have many friends in the cluster even after a few years away. He wants Johnny to sneak back into Hyades and investigate, with the reward being a pardon and the ability to trade again if he succeeds in the mission. Kettrick agrees, not because he really believes in the Doomstar, or that he could find it, but so he can complete that last big score.
Kettrick gets back to Tananaru, his birth planet, and meets up with his best friend Sari and his lady love Larith. Neither looks particularly thrilled to see him, though Larith is quick to clarify that she and Sari have not hooked up. Khitu and Chai, Sari’s beast-person bodyguards, are much happier to have Johnny back. Johnny explains that he’s there for that last big score, the heartstones of the White Sun.
Sari seems somewhat startled, but agrees to allow his ship to be used for a trading voyage that will have the hidden goal of detouring to the White Sun in exchange for a cut of the profits. In the meantime, Johnny can use his boat to get to an island hideout. On the voyage, Khitu mentions that he and Chai have not been allowed to guard Sari as closely as they once did–and the boat explodes. Khitu is killed, and Kettrick badly wounded.
Pretty sure that Sari has betrayed him, but not knowing why, Kettrick decides to stay “dead.” He’s able to make contact with some other friends who have a less impressive trading ship, and he and Chai set off on a mission of revenge and greed.
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), was one of the first big space opera writers for the pulps, sometimes known as the “World Wrecker” for his planet-sized destruction sequences. He also wrote for DC Comics for a couple of decades, including early Legion of Super-Heroes tales. This 1966 novel is from his mature period.
Most of the story is taken up with Kettrick and his crew coming to a planet, setting up trade deals with the locals, then getting betrayed. It’s a distinct pattern, which leads Kettrick to the conclusion that the Doomstar, whatever it is, is real, and that Sari has something to do with it.
The short-jump faster than light drive in an independent trading starship that requires constant repair reminds me a lot of the set-up in the Traveller science fiction role-playing game, and I have to wonder if this novel was one of the influences on that.
Kettrick is more antihero than hero, being motivated more by greed and revenge than any wish to save innocent lives. On the other hand, he will go out of his way not to kill opponents even when they don’t share his qualms. (Chai, the vengeful widow, is less picky about killing, but will listen to “Jon-nee” when he tells her not to.)
Larith’s motives and allegiance remain unclear, even when she comes back into the story.
Naturally, there’s an exciting conclusion as Kettrick must use his diplomacy and trading skills to get the locals to join him in a pitched battle to stop the Doomstar.
Content note: There’s a certain amount of casual sexist attitude in the narrative (especially when it’s implied Johnny is stringing Laura along for the empty sex.) There’s also a certain amount of superior attitudes towards less technologically-developed cultures, and one race of aliens are distrusted because they smell like snakes (presumably they distrust humans for smelling like apes.)
There’s some minor logic holes to make the story wrap up neater, but overall this is a serviceable tale that will divert science fiction fans who are okay with the dated attitudes. Pulp SF fans in particular should enjoy this.
May 1, 2025
A long time before I joined goodreads, I read many Edmond Hamilton books, including all the Captain Futures. This book, Doomstar is nothing like any Edmond Hamilton book I have read before, in a bad way. I found it boring and it was a struggle to finish it.
Criminals have found a way to poison a star so it gives out deadly gamma radiation, killing all life on the planets orbiting it. The League of Cluster Worlds ask Johnny Kettrick to stop them, promising to give him back his operating licence and money taken after being caught in his bad old pirate days.
The story slowly wanders along till right near the end when the latest target sun is saved and the good guys get enough information to capture the rest of the bad guys.
Criminals have found a way to poison a star so it gives out deadly gamma radiation, killing all life on the planets orbiting it. The League of Cluster Worlds ask Johnny Kettrick to stop them, promising to give him back his operating licence and money taken after being caught in his bad old pirate days.
The story slowly wanders along till right near the end when the latest target sun is saved and the good guys get enough information to capture the rest of the bad guys.
March 29, 2022
I have read many of Edmond Hamiltons stories, and I just couldn’t get into this one. It wasn’t very well written, the characters were lacking, and it was just very, very boring. I’ve read so many great stories from him that this surprised me, but when you write as many as he did, you’re bound to have some bad ones at some point.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 22, 2019
Unfortunately, this is a very topical work.
If we discard the fantastic decorations, this book is about nuclear chantage.
If we discard the fantastic decorations, this book is about nuclear chantage.
April 2, 2025
Fun story, memorable characters, I loved reading this!
November 12, 2011
I love me some Edmond "World-Wrecker" (sorry, "World-Saver") Hamilton, but this quick read is basically a B-movie plot (it's easy to picture Bogart as the greed-driven hero with a poorly motivated change of heart who ends up risking life and limb to save the universe) in outer space, with cardboard characters and alien races who behave strikingly like certain varieties of Earthlings.
April 11, 2024
Wow, I'm the only reviewer... Sadly, I have to report it was not so good. I read this around 1978.
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