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He Walked Among Us (2010)

by Norman Spinrad(Favorite Author)

2.92 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765325845 (ISBN13: 9780765325846)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: Personally, this is Spinrad's best read. It has everything, including a prophetic look into our own possible(likely)future, a formula for escaping from our own colossal mismanagement of our planet, riotous humor and scathing social commentary, plus a look into the hilarious and pathetic world of Sci-Fi fandom and conventions. The denouement of this masterpiece is both sublime and unexpected. I would highly recommend this book for Spinrad fans.
review 2: The idea was promising--a comic claiming to be from earth's future comes back to tell us jokes about what complete and utter idiots we were to wreck the planet--but the execution did not live up to the premise.The novel tries to make a serious point about the mess we're in and how the best way to get out of i... moret isn't to scare our own pants off with tales of doom and destruction but to find something in the future to hope for. But the means by which the author chose to pursue this idea flogged the poor thing into the ground and beat it so hard that by the end it was a bloody, messy pulp. (Spoilers ahead.) Seriously, the last best hope/schtick of humanity is for a comic who might be from the future or might be a self-generated reincarnation of jesus/buddha/what have you to come back and generate a large sci-fi cult following who watch him on TV at conventions? It seemed like the kind of novel where the author started with a great idea and had no idea what to do with it, so followed the novel around for a few hundred pages and didn't want to recognize that it just didn't work. Also, while the first self-reference was cute, as a gimmick, it quickly got tiresome. I wish he'd put this one away for two years and come back to it with a fresh perspective and did something with it that worked, because it could have been a lot better than it was. less

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