Author : Eric Frank Russell
Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : Dodd, Mead and Company
Edition : Book Club Edition
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 62-17824
ISBN Number : N/A
Copyright Date : 1962
Dimensions : 8 ½” High x 5 ¾” Wide x ¾” Thick
Inventory Number : 000-002-810
Original Retail Price : $ Unknown
“Every ’old’ book is a ’new’ adventure for anyone who has ’never’ read it.” ®
Description : Little did Johannes Pretorius van der Camp Blieder, the runny-nosed tinkerer, envision the vast consequences of his discovery of a faster-than-light means of propulsion that could carry man to galaxies far away.
One of the results was a huge migration – termed The Great Explosion - of dissidents, trouble-makers, minority groups, and just plain nuts to far-flung planets, where they cultivate their ways of life without interference.
The novel opens four hundred years later with representatives of Terra, the mother planet, taking off in their mile-long Blieder-driven space craft for an inspection tour of four of the colonies. How the monstrous ship manages to get off the ground, with its Captain Grayder, Colonel Shelton and Sergeant Major Bidworthy of the military, and His Rotund Excellency The Ambassador countermanding each other’s orders, is a far greater miracle than the Blieder drive. And the crew of incompetents is no help either.
The Great Explosion is a delightful, two-edged satire which reads like a futuristic Gulliver’s Travels, peopled with as lovable a cast of characters as anyone could wish for, on Earth or off.
Condition :
- Book :
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- All four board corners are sharp.
- The pages are clean, bright and tight.
- There are no tears or writing on the inside pages.
- The book is from a non-smoking home.
- Dust Jacket :
- The dust jacket is in “Good” condition.
- Normal wear with light soiling, fading, small dings and tears.
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