Thursday, September 3, 2015

Book Review- "The Wounded Planet" edited by Roger Elwood and Virginia Kidd

"The Wounded Planet" is a collection of science fiction stories with an environmental theme.

Among my favorites of the collection are: "Noonday Devil" by Dennis O'Neil in which a  fallen priest tries to use his faith one last time to prevent an environmental catastrophe.

"Desirable Lakeside Residence" by Andre Norton has two little girls trying to solve a mystery which may bring life and hope back to a dying world.

"Beautyland" by Gene Wolfe is a wicked satire about what happens to one of the last pristine areas left in a bleak future.

and lastly "Paradise Regained" by Cogswell Thomas  has convicts on a prison planet creating their own unique environmental paradise.



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