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Half Past Human by T.J.Bass
Week 14 - 02/01/2017
Goodreads review
Half Past Human by T.J.Bass
Heavens but that was heavy going.
Good points: Bass' imagination of the future of mankind, with so many people crammed in they've had basic human emotions bred out... The author competently considers the psychology of the 'hive' and delivers the shocking consequences of over-population in a very underplayed way. The ending was satisfying and enables the reader to envision how the story continues once the last page has been read.
Bad points: Even with a degree in psychobiology, I frequently found myself having to dictionary.com words and phrases. The story is so peppered with biological and physiological references that it becomes wearing after a while. Although a few candidates raise their head above the parapet, there is no real protagonist, and it's hard to find anyone to root for. Plus, women in the novel are little more than walking-uteruses (uterii?) and are notable by their absence. I have no qualms about a story led by a strong male cast, but as noted above, that's lacking here too.
Summary: Read the book. It took me a month to battle through it as I had to keep putting it down and coming back to it. But I'm delighted that it did. Wanting to understand the story was what lead me to this very website, hence why I feel the need to say my piece. I must add, I read for fun and for distraction - this book probably deserves far closer attention than I was able to give it and I'm sure subsequent re-readings would be more satisfying.
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“Diversity and multiplicity of worlds was as necessary on the galactic plane as diversity and multiplicity of individuals on the world plane and diversity and multiplicity of nerve-cells on the individual plane.”
Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
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“On my native planet, whenever I had been desmayed by the suffering and the futility of individuals, I had taken comfort in the thought that at least the massed effect of all our blind striving must be the slow but glorious awakening of the human spirit. But now I saw that there was no guarantee of any such triumph. It seemed that the universe, or the maker of the universe, must be indifferent to the fate of the worlds. That there should be endless struggle and suffering and waste must of course be accepted; and gladly, for these were the very soil in which the spirit grew. But that all struggle should be finnaly, absolutely vain, tah a whole world of sensitive spirits should fail and die, must be sheer evil. In my horror it seemed to me that Hate must be the Star Maker.”
Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
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