not particularly palatable rehash of standard ideas". Samuel R. Delany remembers that "Brutal and authority-fixated Cade's transformation, as he learns compassion, to understand human rights and a higher sense of ethics, was as powerful to me as a thirteen-year-old reader as anything I'd read. Robert Markley declared that Gunner Cade "updates the anti-totalitarianism of Yevgeny Zamiatin's We . . . Kornbluth and Merril's nightmarish capitalism treats humans, minerals, and foodstuffs as commodities that are used brutally, unthinkingly, without regard to consequences". Ken Ramstead reviewed Gunner Cade and Takeoff in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "After completing Takeoff, I had to wonder why it had not been given prime billing over Gunner Cade. Takeoff is certainly the superior work, a joy to read and well worth the slog through the murk of Gunner Cade to get to it." References 1952 American novels 1952 science fiction novels American science fiction novels Books with cover art by Paul Bacon Novels by Cyril M. Kornbluth