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Rogue Winter, a Maori, tracks the Manchu Duke of Death across the solar system in order to set free Rogue's kidnapped lover, Demi Jeroux; Redelijk/goed. TOR pocket 1st printing 1982. Schoon en fris binnenwerk. Licht scheef gelezen bokeblok met paar dunne leeslijntjes in de rug. Randen omslag lichte slijtage / gebruiksspoortje.
Seller Inventory # 927781
- Title
- The Deceivers
- Author
- Alfred Bester
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0523485247
- ISBN 13
- 9780523485249
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
It's a colourful, whimsical romp that plays entertainingly with themes from Bester's peak years, though without his old driving, compelling savagery. Hero Rogue Winter is a "Synergist", acutely sensitive to the world's patterns: in one set-piece sequence he follows an intuitive trail from 12 drummers drumming in a street parade, to the goal of a (metaphorical) partridge in a pear tree. Winter is also heir-apparent to the Maori Mafia which controls much of the Solar System's crime, but must single-handedly battle the dread mammoths of Ganymede to earn his crown, and meanwhile has fallen helplessly in love with a sexy non-human shapeshifter from Titan, making him vulnerable to minions of the insidious Manchu Duke of Death who plans to smash the syndicate that's smuggling the priceless miracle fuel Meta from the heavily defended mines of Saturn's Chinese/Japanese-dominated moon Triton...
Bester crams this wild farrago of a narrative with wisecracks, junk science, circus glamour, odd catchphrases, bits of self-conscious cleverness and excess, Chinese esoterica like the Mirror-and-Listen Mystery, and his trademark typographic tricks. Amusing candyfloss nonsense; quite readable, but definitely not in the same league as his 1950s classics. --David Langford
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