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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:14:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 22:14:10 1984
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	"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]