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A review by markyon
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
3.0
Wham-bam space opera, originally from 1939 but expanded into short novel form by 1950.
It does show its age a little, with rootin'-tootin' Space Reporters, a gorgeous gal who's stayed in suspended animation (but with her mind working!) for hundreds of years.
But there's some great, if implausible, ideas here: colliding universes, alien races, massive machines.
Very much in the Doc Smith vein; not surprisingly, really.
Good fun, but by no means Simak's best.
It does show its age a little, with rootin'-tootin' Space Reporters, a gorgeous gal who's stayed in suspended animation (but with her mind working!) for hundreds of years.
But there's some great, if implausible, ideas here: colliding universes, alien races, massive machines.
Very much in the Doc Smith vein; not surprisingly, really.
Good fun, but by no means Simak's best.