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| Auteur | Nicholson, Sam |
| Titel | Captain Empirical |
| Uitgever | Ace |
| Genre | SF / Fantasy |
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| Editie | 1979 - pocket - first printing - 342 p. |
| ISBN nummer | 0441091377 |
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Redelijk |
| Beschrijving staat | (VG-, cover puncture) |
| Gewicht | 200 gram |
| Past door brievenbus (Ja/Nee) | Ja |
| Prijs | € 1,75 |
| Omschrijving | Essef - Captain Empirical refers to Captain Schuster, the hero of the book, a hard-headed hard-working throwback of a ship's officer. Those ships are mainly ordinary cargo ships carrying ordinary goods in the 20th century and occasionally in a shuttle or mining tug in the far-flung exotic reaches of... Earth's moon.
Only about 10% of the book is science fiction, unless you consider nuclear-powered sailing vessels or lunar landings science fiction (fait accompli in 1979). Even including those, the number only rises to 25%. Of the 10%, we have:
1) Asteroid mining, about as mundane a subject as science fiction has to offer... except see #3
2) Rat traps which attract rats via psionic waves which also have the side effect of attracting lowlife scum humans ("rats" - get it?)... but not any other scavenging life forms
3) A robot which collects the mail |
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