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myxomycetes's review
3.0
Two-fisted tales of engineering, starring Don Draper... in SPACE!!!!
That's my tagline for this collection of stories from the 1940s. In a lot of ways these are the Ur texts of Hard SF. Venus Equilateral is a radio-relay station located in a carved out asteroid, its purpose to maintain communications between the inner planets, its staff entirely made up of all-American rock-jawed engineers and their pretty secretaries.
As a historical document the book's interesting, but to read the stories requires some fortitude. I found it best to approach them as camp.
That's my tagline for this collection of stories from the 1940s. In a lot of ways these are the Ur texts of Hard SF. Venus Equilateral is a radio-relay station located in a carved out asteroid, its purpose to maintain communications between the inner planets, its staff entirely made up of all-American rock-jawed engineers and their pretty secretaries.
As a historical document the book's interesting, but to read the stories requires some fortitude. I found it best to approach them as camp.
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