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Syn - B60-1018
SYNOne was discovered quite by accident. A man in a mental hospital said he wasn't real. He wasn't.SYNThere were more. Scientists feared that half the popultion of Earth might be Syns.SYNMethodically, the Syns were being rooted out and destroyed. In turn, they were carrying out their own fearful destruction of human life and works.SYNEveryone's humanity had been challened. Every man was aligned against each other.....because no one knew what a Syn was.
- GenresScience Fiction
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First published June 1, 1969
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August 26, 2011
* After two years on a space colony computer engineer Arthur Zoran returns to Earth, where humans are at war with Syns. Syns, he is told, are artificial human lookalikes, bent on taking over the planet. Arthur knows something is not right, and since his fiancee has gone missing after being branded a Syn, he is determined to find out what it is.
* The second book from 1969 I've read recently (the first was "The Shadow People" by Margaret St. Clair). Both are socially-conscious, giddily pell-mell plot-driven stories that make more recent novels look positively plodding by comparison.
* Here, the ending is dated and unsatisfying, yet not wholly unexpected, but the whole thing reads so fast that this is merely regrettable, not fatal.
* The fun part is everything before that, following Arthur, a hardboiled scientist (he's not back on Earth for more than a few hours before he's already killed a couple of people), through a nightmare, post-nuclear Earth where no one trusts anyone else and murder and execution are a part of daily life. It's not logical, of course, but like a dark Indiana Jones, it's an enjoyable ride.
* By the way, what's the popular, well-known literary equivalent of Indiana Jones?
* The second book from 1969 I've read recently (the first was "The Shadow People" by Margaret St. Clair). Both are socially-conscious, giddily pell-mell plot-driven stories that make more recent novels look positively plodding by comparison.
* Here, the ending is dated and unsatisfying, yet not wholly unexpected, but the whole thing reads so fast that this is merely regrettable, not fatal.
* The fun part is everything before that, following Arthur, a hardboiled scientist (he's not back on Earth for more than a few hours before he's already killed a couple of people), through a nightmare, post-nuclear Earth where no one trusts anyone else and murder and execution are a part of daily life. It's not logical, of course, but like a dark Indiana Jones, it's an enjoyable ride.
* By the way, what's the popular, well-known literary equivalent of Indiana Jones?
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