5/28/2023 0 Comments Rogue moon by algis budrysSF was always supposed to be the cutting edge, but let’s be honest some of its most famous books - through no fault of anyone but Father Time - feel old. There’s probably no genre as vulnerable to this sort of thing as science fiction. You feel guilty even asking the question, but really, what was all the fuss about? What the hell was so “classic” about The Moon Pool anyway? So many vintage books seem to require the qualifying quotation marks. There are just too many books out there to read, too many still to get to, (too many that you’ll never get to!) and sometimes when you finally do read one of those older “classics,” the inevitable allowances you have to make for the style, the ideas, and the attitudes of an earlier era can make you come away feeling dissatisfied. Fawcett Gold Medal paperback original, November 1960.
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