Seven Against Mars had me hooked from the first page, and it never let me go. Berman-Gorvine's clever send-up of and heartfelt love letter to the science fiction pulp era delivers both laugh-out-loud wit and a poignant look into timeless issues of prejudice, oppression, and the persistence of evil. Most of all, this novel is a celebration of the power of the imagination and the triumph of the human spirit. It serves as a powerful reminder of why we fall in love with science fiction in the first place and how much the genre can tell us about our pasts (cue a gifted Polish Jewish dreamer during World War II), our futures (cue a feisty young Texian from a post-U.S. North America), and our hopes for heroes (cue a determined Martian princess and a daring adventurer with a zap-gun). Adults should share this with the young readers they know but be certain to keep a copy for themselves.
--Amy Sturgis, Ph.D., award-winning genre scholar, StarShipSofa and Mythgard Institute at Signum University |
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Read 36 as a well-written, scarily plausible if-this-goes-on novel. Or read it as a highly intelligent philosophical meditation. But whatever you do, read it. – Harry Turtledove |
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As Martin J. Gidron, I am author of The Severed Wing, co-winner of the 2002 Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form). |
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