Space wasn't half so scary, half so strange, or even half so alien, as what Hal Bregg returned to. He had been away Planet Earth for ten years space-time. But that was 127 years back home and a lot of things had changed. Sex. Money. Transit. Violence. There's no more violence. Everyone gets it "betrizated" out of them in childhood. And that's just the beginning...
Naturally, Hal refuses to be acclimated by the "Adapt" people. He prefers to figure it out all by himself, be a stranger in a strange land, draw his own conclusions. And he does.
"In the unlikely event that a science-fiction writer is deemed worthy of a Nobel Prize in the near future, the most likely candidate would be a Pole named Stanislaw Lem," states THE NEW YORK TIMES. And FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION writes,
- ISBN10 0156765934
- ISBN13 9780156765930
- Publish Date 31 December 1989 (first published 20 October 1980)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English