Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479428388
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Book Synopsis The Rakehells of Heaven by : John Boyd
Download or read book The Rakehells of Heaven written by John Boyd and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when two U.S. Naval Astronauts land on the planet Harlech, where there is no government, no law -- indeed, no concept of sin! Public nudity is a way of life and the paternalism of children is of little interest to their mothers. This wry, amusing, and suspenseful satire is truly John Boyd at his best. Praise for John Boyd's The Last Starship from Earth "This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen since '1984' appeared. I enjoyed its humor, its half-buried allusions. The puns, the almost-not-quite-quotations, the thinly-veiled references to our 'real' world—all of these delighted me. It belongs up at the top, along with 'Brave New World' and '1984'." --Robert A. Heinlein "A fascinating novel that kept me amused and interested to the end. The future society it describes is one of the most convincing I've ever encountered.” -- Arthur C. Clarke "In the tradition of Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury... A work of extraordinary impact." -- The Los Angeles Times