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Title: 30s Pulp
Review: if you enjoy 1930s style pulp sci-fi, this book is enjoyable. If you want a book with some scientific accuracy, fleshed out characters and interesting writing you will hate this book.The story centers around Jonny Goodboy Tyler, the hero and perfect example of everything that was sold as manly in the early part of the last century. One hopes the book does not display the author's opinion of women- all the female characters in the book are mere servants to the men, be it with the humans surviving at a stone age level or the within the galactic society of the aliens.We are also treated to some rather weak jokes (such as the alien lawyers whose distant ancestors were sharks) and bad science (radiation can be washed off with water).Over all I was very dissapointed in the book. It felt like Hubbard was reliving his early years of writing, but had forgotten that in the intervening years the genre had evolved and people actually expect their books to have some literary merit nowadays.
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