![]() ![]() ![]() Naked dictatorship and leader worship, oligarchy and dollar-worship. ![]() “ You got born into a hate-thy-neighbor, envy-thy-neighbor, murder-thy-neighbor culture. Check out this passage, which we've edited a bit for brevity: Do these brownies exist? Well, they're more likely to turn up than the rampant sin of the book's title. Meanwhile, even though forty years of colonization has turned up no Martian life, sightings of so-called “brownies” are on the upswing, but are dismissed as fantasies. Most importantly, a stash of drugs has gone missing and if it doesn't reappear the consequences, both political and existential, will be dire. But the colony has a few problems of its own. The nomenclature of life on Mars, the minerals that are mined, Mars Machine Tool, greeners, marcaine, and much more, are all woven together by Judd (a pseudonym for Cyril Kornbluth and Judith Merril) in an attempt to create a believable alternate reality of a human colony on Mars.Įarth has numerous problems and independence is thought by Mars colonists to mean an escape from those issues. We discerned this in the first five pages thanks to the undefined jargon, numerous made-up place names, and copious technical language that's supposed to understood through context. This cover for Cyril Judd's 1961 Mars based sci-fi novel Sin in Space makes the book look like ridiculous sleaze but there's serious ambition here. ![]()
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