Thursday, June 19, 2014

Robert Silverberg Recalled to Life (1958) Book Review

Robert Silverberg
Recalled to Life
1958


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My first Silverberg novel.


Former governor of New York state and lawyer decides to represent a firm which has created a way to bring people back to life.

More of a what-if story about the legal repercussions of bringing people back to life.

This book is more about legal matters than science fiction as Heinlein's The Moon Is  Harsh Mistress is more about how to run a revolution than about what people commonly consider science fiction such as Star Wars.

Has a self igniting cigarette something we still don't have. I had just finished Bob Shaw's Who Goes There? Which also had a self igniting cigarette. p7

Also dials himself a whiskey which we still don't have. p 10

“Win friends and influence people,” maybe a reference to How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936). p76

Wrong prophecy “the moon had been reached almost simultaneously by America and Russia in the early 1960s.”

Written in third person but seamlessly goes into first person for just a few lines in  a very dramatic and important scene. I've never read a rule broken so damn well.  p 140

Best line: “He reaped a harvest of sour glances.”

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