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Title: Sensationalist drivel for the masses
Review: This book was boring and depressing at the same time. A shallow plot that is supposed to bring fear but fails completely. This book might have been good when it first came out decades ago, but it fails to grab attention now. As a plus, it probably broke new ground in science fiction literature at the time, but this matters very little to me personally. I read this book as it was part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction Collection from Easton Press, and I did not want to throw down $40-$50 on a title I did not enjoy or value thoroughly. Instead, for this genre, I recommend Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", "Dune", by Frank Herbert, "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Heinlein, or "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes.
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