![]() ![]() The author also seemed to be trying to write a different story than the SF one, and he failed at that, too.Ĭlute said the “perfectly competent surface narration deals with a hard-SF solution to the problem of an alien labyrinth, discovered on the Moon, which kills anyone who tries to pass through it.” Well, it aspired to being competent. ![]() I think there was a great SF story in there trying to get out, but it stood as much chance as an escape from Alcatraz. Although this novel was praised by Alfred Bester as “one of the finest flashes of heat lightning to dazzle us this year,” that is, the year 1960, and John Clute, in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, called it “now widely regarded as an sf classic,” I respectfully disagree. ![]()
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