Catch a Falling Star

by John Brunner

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345306813
• ISBN13: 9780345306814
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A memorable journey

There are few books that I have kept nearby for as long as I have this novel. First read as a teen-ager in the late 70's, John Brunner's literary style and vivid discription embedded in me a love for a well-written jaunt through fantastic futures. A gem, a joy, this book will stay with me to enjoy over and over again for many years to come.

Wandering - but captivating

Seeing this book in a used bookstore, I snapped it up, and was not dissapointed. The golden age of humanity has passed, leaving behind a self maintinging organic city where the story picks up. A hobbyist astronomer discovers a meteor headed for earth. He tries in vain to warn people but everyone is too self-centered or apathetic to bother paying attention. So he sets off into the world searching for answers, and discovers not everyone has well cultured plants to live in. Brunner leads us through a strange and greately varied earth of the distant future. Brunner's unique style grabs ahold and refuses to let go until the end of the last page.