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"Justice and injustice do not matter. Freedom is not the issue. The issue is survival. If a system for survival works, if the method of co-existing continues and species involved continue to exist, then it deserves to continue. The race, not the individual, is what counts. That's all that has ever counted."

"Justice and injustice do not matter. Freedom is not the issue. The issue is survival. If a system for survival works, if the method of co-existing continues and species involved continue to exist, then it deserves to continue. The race, not the individual, is what counts. That's all that has ever counted."

Boo!!

PART II: Shelf Life: ☆☆☆☆☆

Part I: Black Hatch Blues: ☆☆☆☆☆

"Famines are here and they've been here for three, four years already, and they're getting worse. There's more diseases than there's ever been since the good Lord sent the plagues to visit the Egyptians. And they're plagues we don't know anything about. There's more drought and more flooding than there's ever been. Entire species of fish are gone."

Award winner 1977...and quite prescient.

H. G. WELLS : The Star ☆☆☆☆☆

Wow! No wonder this author has been labeled as 'new weird'. This novel is slap-yo-mamma weeeeird. And I am loving it.

"You wouldn't believe what's happening," he said.
"Tell me."
"I've got caught up in some kind of war, I'm trapped behind enemy lines with a bunch of--really. You wouldn't believe me."
"Monks and zombies," she said. And the vampire."
Of course she knew.

"In the whole spectacle there was a persistent, pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation...as if these stark, nightmare spires marked the pylons of a frightful gateway into forbidden fears of dream, and complex gulfs of remote time, space, and ultradimensionality. I could not help feeling that they were evil things-mountains of madness whose further slopes looked out over some accursed abyss."

"...and Solaristics, a relatively well defined discipline in spite of its scope, became an increasingly tangled maze where every apparent exit lead to a dead end. In the climate of general indifference, stagnation and despondency, the ocean of Solaris was submerging under an ocean of printed paper."

"Solaris is the only one we've come across. It's in an extremely rare category, not like Earth. Earth is a common type, the grass of the universe! And we pride ourselves on this universality. There's nowhere we can't go; in that belief we set out for other worlds, all brimming with confidence. And what were we going to do with them? Rule them or be ruled by them? That was the only idea in our pathetic minds!"

'How do you expect to communicate with the ocean ' when you can't even understand one another?'

FAIR GAME: ☆☆☆☆
THE HANGING STRANGER: ☆☆☆☆
THE EYES HAVE IT: ☆☆☆☆
THE GOLDEN MAN*:☆☆☆☆
*The basis for the motion picture NEXT
THE TURNING WHEEL: ☆☆☆☆☆
THE LAST OF THE MASTERS: ☆☆☆☆☆
THE FATHER-THING:☆☆☆
STRANGE EDEN: ☆☆☆
TONY AND THE BEETLES: ☆☆☆☆☆
NULL-O: ☆☆☆☆☆
TO SERVE THE MASTER: ☆☆☆☆☆
EXHIBIT PIECE: ☆☆☆☆
THE CRAWLERS: ☆☆☆☆
SALES PITCH:☆☆☆
SHELL GAME: ☆☆☆☆☆
UPON THE DULL EARTH: ☆☆☆
FOSTER, YOU'RE DEAD: ☆☆☆☆

SNAIRLS: ☆☆☆☆

THE ENGINEER: ☆☆☆☆

"This place...this bar. Why doesn't God erase it? If this world operates by moral laws..."

"This bar is necessary to the moral order. This is a sinkpit of corruption and vice, a flesh pot of iniquity. You think virtue can exist without sin? That's the trouble with you atheists; you don't grasp the mechanics of evil. Get on the inside and enjoy life. If you're one of the Faithful, you've got nothing to worry about."

Holy hellacious fireballs! First contact and it's a seeeerious smackdown...in spaaaace 💥

"Right now, the greatest obstacle to humanitie's survival comes from itself".