Police Your Planet

by Lester del Rey and Eric van Lihn (aka Lester Del Rey)

Book Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345298586
• ISBN13: 9780345298584
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The least nerdy sf book ever written

You're probably used to sf with "clean violence," in which a billion people are killed with the push of a button. In this book, there's very little of that; rather, this novel should be the darling of the Mickey Spillane set. Every two or three pages, someone (usually the protagonist, Bruce Gordon) is attacked with fists, knives, clubs, or guns (not blasters, the old-fashioned type). But this isn't just a crime novel put into space; this is a hard sf novel, and the terraforming of Mars, while not dwelt upon, is central to the story. Give this to your mean, tough brother who beats up sf fans and steals their lunch money. He'll love it...