Conscience Interplanetary

by Joseph Green and Unknown

Book Overview

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1973. 1st Edition, so stated, Hardbound, 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall), 230 pages. Dust jacket art by Emanuel Schongut. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879971487
• ISBN13: 9780879971489
• Release Date: December 1974
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enter worlds of stark beauty...

This book is definatly one of the early sci-fi greats. The story takes place in the middle twenty-first century. The plot centers around a P.P. Corps "conscience" named Allan Odegaard whose job it is to survey various potenitial colony planets for an overcrowded Earth, to find out if any of the native spieces are sentient. His travels take him from the frozen planet Sister to Crystal, a planet inhabited by silicon-based plant lifeforms. On many of these planets, he encounters the "New Romans", a greedy, earthcentric political party who care nothing for any of the alien races and who will not stop at anything to make sure Odegaard is out of the way for good. One the most interesting of the alien races are the Cryers of Crystal, beings who are one group mind, yet each member of which is a separate, sentient entity. (If you want to see what the Cryers look like, check out "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" by Wayne Barlowe.) This book, while risque at times, is an excellent and interesting read, one that will keep you engrossed till the end. Each planet is beautifully and painstakingly described, and the enjoyment quality of the book makes you wonder what kind of dolts the publishers were to let this book go out of print. This book fully deserves five stars, and more. If you can find it, buy it! As it is, I can only hope someone makes a movie based on this book (and does not ruin the book in the process) so to cash in on the profits, some publisher will be literally forced to reprint this book.