Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Message-ID: <681@orca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:14:10 EST Article-I.D.: orca.681 Posted: Tue Mar 6 22:14:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:52:28 EST References: <728@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 23 "In an unending search for funny SF, I picked up a copy of 'Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers' by Harry Harrison ... The book, to put it mildly, it terrible. ... The plot is so stupendously non-existant that I found I didn't mind when the cardboard characters stood up and postured (Example: the heros are about to be killed by a KGB agent. In a last ditch attempt to save their skin, they say 'Sure, you were brought up as a socialist, but your father was an american (true assumption) and that makes you an american as well!' This moved this highly trained and motivated KGB agent so much that he changed sides ..." Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers is meant, not as a "straight" humorous book to read out of context, but a parody of the classic SF styles and subgenres. In particular, most of Heinlein's works were well and excellently lampooned. As such, I found it to be about the funniest book I ever read. But don't read it unless you have already read quite a bit of conventional SF, or you won't find it to be very funny. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]