Science Fiction/Space Opera
Interstellar Patrol was the Science Fiction Book Club
selection for March. Christopher
Anvil wrote mostly novella and short story length works that were published in
several of the Science Fiction magazines during the 1960’s and 70’s. His works are coincided to be among the
classics of that period. Baen
collected and published several different collections of his stories.
Interstellar Patrol contains the first stories of Roberts,
Morrissey, and Hammell as they start on the road to becoming members of the Interstellar
Patrol. Everyone agreed it was a
good book and a good way to compare Science Fiction today with Science Fiction
during the 60’s and 70’s.
The female members of the club commented on the lack of
women in the stories. There were
exactly 3 mentions of women in the first two parts of the book and none were
over 3 sentences long. That was
always a problem for me when I first started reading Science Fiction and is one
thing that has changed.
This is one of the few times we all liked the book and we
all agreed we would like to read Interstellar Patrol II to here more about the
adventures of Roberts Morrissey and Hammell as they continue their career in
the Interstellar Patrol.
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