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The Green Odyssey

Philip José Farmer

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She cocked her head to one side and squinted at him, managing somehow even in this grotesque attitude to look ravishingly beautiful.

Suddenly she said, "You wouldn't be thinking of running away, would you?"

For a second he became pale. Damn the woman anyway!

"Don't be ridiculous," he said, trying hard to keep his voice from cracking. "I'm too much aware of the penalties if I were caught. Besides, why should I want to run away? You are the most desirable woman I've ever known. (This was the truth.) Though you're not the easiest one in the world to live with. (A master understatement.) I would have gotten no place without you. (True; but he couldn't spend the rest of his life on this barbarous world.) And it is unthinkable that I would want to leave you." (Inexpressible, yes, but not unthinkable. He couldn't take her with him, for the simple reason that even if she would go she would never fit in his life on Earth. She'd be absolutely unhappy. Mo. . . Read More

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Aventura pulp clara heredera de Burroughs con héroe terrestre en un planeta del que se decide a escapar. Tiene cosillas cautivadoras que siempre molan del pulp (la navegación por un inmenso océano de hierba, una secuencia bastante cafre con unos caníbales) y otras que no hay por donde coger (la desn

A solid three and a half stars.

This starts off quickly, set in a richly detailed medieval-type city, on a planet still at this stage. Farmer takes the time to build a convincing environment, full of meticulous tidbits and interesting characters.

Alan Green, the titular character, is an Earthman, tra

Със сигурност оценката е завишена, но такива приключенско-космически фантастики мога да ги ям като череши. И точно като тях имат топлия сладък вкус на детство.
Одисеята на Грийн е първият публикуван роман на Фармър и определено е заявка за десетките пълп фантастики с религиозен и сексуален уклон, кои

This book shows a bit of its age in gender roles and stereotypes. Regardless, it's a fairly well constructed novel of a far flung future where the empire of man has risen, fallen, and risen again. The story takes place from the view of a man of a technological society stuck on a back water planet fo

A swashbuckling, mind-blowing space opera that still manages to come off as original sixty years after it's original publication.

De cover is op-en-top scifi maar heef totaal niets met het verhaal te maken.
Dit is het eerste boek van Philip José Farmer en meteen ook zijn grootste hit, ook al heeft hij nog een enorme stapel geweldige andere boeken geschreven.
Een gestrande reiziger vertrekt op een groots avontuur op zoek naar red

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