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This might've been relevant in the late 1960s, or even interesting I the late 1970s.Now it's dated, and tiresome to read.
Alternately wonderful, ingenious and incredibly frustrating, Lupoff's novel (which, best I can interpret from Harlan Ellison's introduction, is made up of several interconnected short stories) jumps willy-nilly through a galaxy of Old Earth colonies that retain their old racist attitudes simply out of spite. Essentially it's the South trying to put all those "nigras" back in their place. These sections are made up of some of the most dense vernacular jargon outside of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwo...
I was expecting more action, something along the line of Starship Troopers. It's much more of a political/social novel to me.
Planets colonized by southern rednecks. Australian aborigines surfing through space. alien life forms harvested and used to create soldier zombies. What's not to like?
Introduced interesting characters and themes then I realised I was over halfway through and Lupoff hadn't even started to deliver on them. Had to scan finish it to make sure I wasn't going crazy 😟
Richard A. Lupoff's Space War blues is a devastatingly original novel - expanded from a novella included in Harlan Ellison's Again Dangerous Visions anthology (which various chapters/revisions appearing in New Dimensions IV, New Dimensions 5 and Amazing Stories before it all came together as a novel).As indescribable an experience as anything I've ever read, Space War Blues is, as Ellion describes it in the cover blurb, 'There has never been a thing like this before... Audacious... Extravagant.....
Many countries on earth (and smaller political entities) have colonized different planets. Black and white people are strictly segregated. There is extreme racism.I quit after 80 pages. The idea about the sailors in space is just moronic. It may seem original for a second, but if you think about it for another second it is clear that it is so stupid that the author should have chucked the idea.
Lupoff tried to do something really new and unique with this book, and I think he had a lot more success that he was credited. It's a melding of new wave and space opera, and science fiction and horror, and societal commentary with adventure. The portion published in AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS seems probably much better than the rest of this version, but it was a thoughtful and fun read. I remember it fondly after many years.
I get ticked off when I come across a book I'm reading that lists so many different bizarre sounding and reading names of people and places (especially in sci fi), that your mind is permanently warped. Honestly, is it really that necessary? Can't we just stick to four or five characters with reasonable sounding names. I started this book today at lunch and got so ticked off, I've decided not to finish it. Never mind that it begins with a long introduction by Harlan Ellison (for an editor, he can...
