Inherit the stars

216 pages

English language

Published 1977 by Ballantine Books.

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2 stars (1 review)

The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50,000 years old -- and that meant that this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed!

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2 stars

Good concept, well told tale, but with a lil' bit more sexism (and a touch of racism) than I find comfortable in a science-fiction story written in 1978 and set some hundred years after that point.

Great technological strides, and absolutely no social development, makes for SF I take less than serious.