Tag: David Gerrold

Starhunt

Starhunt

by David Gerrold (Hamlyn, 1985)

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Not merely a reprint. Starhunt does encompass Yesterday’s Children but reboots at that story’s conclusion and ups the word count by a third, rewriting Korie from deranged and overambitious fool to master strategist and king of mind games. The psychobabble is unconvincing.

 

 

Yesterday’s Children

Yesterday’s Children

by David Gerrold (Faber & Faber, 1972)

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A grim search for realism in depicting space warfare. Having established his antihero protagonist aboard a tumbledown ship rife with interpersonal tensions—Star Trek in other words but stripped of hope and idealism—Gerrold pins his denouement on mental breakdown and gimmickry.

 

 

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