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Title: Why?
Review: Why a publisher would choose to reissue this book is beyond me. I suppose it might have been more amusing in the mid `80s when it first came out, but even back then I'm afraid I would have found its treatment of those with physical disabilities ("cappies", from "handicapped") just as offensive, even if intended as some further indictment of American society (to go along with the anti-consumerist slant throughout).Make no mistake: this is not science fiction. It's heavy-handed farce with some nifty neato gismos and a spaceship or two; a series of episodes from "The Jetsons" retold through a bad hangover.Read this one only if you want to see what Brian Herbert's style was like when he was only influenced by his father and had not yet fallen under the shadow of Kevin J. Anderson; back when, apparently, he could still write.
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