A review by pinknantucket
The Age of the Pussyfoot by Frederik Pohl
3.0
I liked it, but maybe not quite as much as I liked other books I've given a ranking of "I liked it". "I liked it" is a broad category and of course you can like books for all sorts of reasons. Still, I'd be interested to read more by Frederick Pohl. The main character (Forrester) was a bit annoying as he wouldn't just shut up and read the instruction manual to his new life, but then I haven't woken up hundreds of years into the future after suffering a terrible accident like he has so I shouldn't criticise. Still I suppose a sequence of social and economic embarrassments IS the better storytelling device to reveal a society of the future.
NB I'm trying to pay attention to how cultural heritage is portrayed in science fiction, there was a museum in this one that sounded exactly like a museum from the 1960s which even now seems incongruous.
My copy: given to me by a friend, yayyy thank you!
NB I'm trying to pay attention to how cultural heritage is portrayed in science fiction, there was a museum in this one that sounded exactly like a museum from the 1960s which even now seems incongruous.
My copy: given to me by a friend, yayyy thank you!