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A review by myxomycetes
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
3.0
It’s 1950s SF in the hip mode (think Bester and Pohl) with one of those What-If planetary monoculture set-ups. What if a world was populated by mental patients? What if a world was populated by Medieval re-enactors? I
n this case it’s, What if there was a prison world where evil was considered good? It’s dopey, but not completely so – not quite Bizarro World, but certainly not The Dispossessed either – and every now and then the satire’s particularly sharp and pointed.
n this case it’s, What if there was a prison world where evil was considered good? It’s dopey, but not completely so – not quite Bizarro World, but certainly not The Dispossessed either – and every now and then the satire’s particularly sharp and pointed.