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Books : Sidney's Comet


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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780352315212
Format: Import
ISBN: 0352315210
Label: Star
Manufacturer: Star
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1984
Publisher: Star
Studio: Star

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Why?
Why a publisher would choose to reissue this book is beyond me. I suppose it might have been more amusing in the mid `80s when it first came out, but even back then I'm afraid I would have found its treatment of those with physical disabilities ("cappies", from "handicapped") just as offensive, even if intended as some further indictment of American society (to go along with the anti-consumerist slant throughout).

Make no mistake: this is not science fiction. It's heavy-handed farce ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One of the most bizarre futures imaginable.
I found this odd book on someone's favorite book list ... Since that person liked a lot of other books I liked, I figured I'd give it a look. What I found was one of the most bizarre futures (600 years hence) imaginable. I couldn't figure out if Herbert was trying to make a twisted anti-consumerism Brave New World or what, but all of a sudden I realized - this is a ... good story. The premise, about a "garbage comet", was really almost incidental to the story and should not be considered a negative.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great book!
This book is not only good and witty sci. fi., it is also aparody of the American obsessiopn with consumer's society and endlesscommercials. How would you like to live in a society where great majority of people has brain implants who emit signals for example of being itchy when there is a commercial for spray to ease itching, and symptoms subside as soon as you order the spray etc.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great book
the story of earth 400 years to the future. sidney a lowly govermental worker is picked in order to save the universe from a giant comet of garbage. a wonderful and funny look of the world of the future where economy is every thing and imortality can be achieved just by believing.
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