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Adaptation

Mack Reynolds

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. . .on't believe they've even got the wheel."

The eight of them clustered about the craft's portholes, taking in the primitive city that surrounded them. The square had emptied at their approach, and now the several thousand citizens that had filled it were peering fearfully from street entrances and alleyways.

Cogswell, a fiery little technician, said, "Look at them! It'll take hours before they drum up enough courage to come any closer. You were right, doctor. If we left the boat now, we'd make fools of ourselves trying to coax them near enough to talk."

Watson said to Joe Chessman "What do you mean, no Emperor Montezuma?"

Chessman said absently, as he watched, "When the Spanish got to Mexico they didn't understand what they saw, being musclemen rather than scholars. And before competent witnesses came on the scene, Aztec society was destroyed. The conquistadors, who did attempt to describe Tenochtitlán, misinterprete. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Let me start by saying there is a lot "wrong" with this book some 60-odd years after its publication. Reynolds is a major figure in a different era of science fiction. His all-male cast postures about itself, beating their intellectual chests at each other, oblivious to their own ironic impetuousnes

Amazing chilling book!

As I wrote in my review of A.J. Budrys's
The Barbarians
, I gave myself a task to read Golden Age SF for craft and technique, one of which was Mack Reynolds's Adaptation.
First, historians should read this book. It's basically the USSR versus the USA in deep space, although not in open armed confl

Currently one of my favourite books! A little short, if anything, and with a very unexpected ending.

An overall interesting read. I don’t get why a thousand years was waited before anything was done for these planets instead of say like a hundred years. Everything that happened on the planets was predictable. Even the “twist” at the end was not a huge surprise. It could be gleaned from certain thin

Short but thoroughly engrossing . Enjoyed the ending.

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