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| Twin Worlds (Professor Jameson space adventure#4) (Vintage Ace SF, G-681) |  | Author: Neil R Jones
Creator: Gray Morrow
Publisher: Ace Books
Category: Book
Buy Used: $0.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2145209
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 157
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.2 x 0.4
ASIN: B0007FBY0S
Publication Date: 1967
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| Customer Reviews:
A Work of Rough Imagination July 21, 2007
There are some unusual sights in this little book of _voyages extraordinaires_ : an interplanetary rocket launched by a giant wheel powered by a steam engine (scientifically impossible, of course, but charming in its imaginative detail); a flat planet with rivers flowing over the edges; an abandoned city haunted by "incandescent globes" bobbing "searchingly in and out of the hollow eyes of the abandoned buildings" (111); and the forest dwelling crustaceans who converse in harmonious music.
I could not help but notice that the ecosystems of the planets in these stories consist mostly of fierce carnivores, with little attention given to herbivores or non-carniverous plants. But one must be fair. How many pulp writers of the thirties could reasonably be expected to have advanced knowledge of ecology?
_Twin Worlds_ (1967) is the fourth collection of the journeys of Professor Jameson and his mechanical Zorome companions. They are the last three stories in the series to be published in _Amazing_. Neil R. Jones would publish other Professor Jameson stories, but only in magazines like _Astonishing_ and _Super Science Stories_. The overall quality of the later pieces is not as good.
The stories are "Twin Worlds" (April, 1937), "On the Planet Fragment" (October, 1937), and "The Music Monsters" (April, 1938). The style of all three stories is a bit straightforward and rough. But they have an old fashioned sense of humanitarianism and brotherhood that is sadly lacking in today's world of fanatical extremism. The heroes help other creatures in need-- an exiled ruler in the first story and races bedeviled by brutal predators in the last two. Give this collection a try. The stories aren't classics by any stretch of the imagination, but they are readable entries from the olden days of _Amazing_, just before the dawn of John W. Campbell and the golden age of _Astounding_.
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