Edmund Cooper (1) (1926–1982)

This is the first of his "Expenables" series which he wrote in the 1970s under the name of Richard Avery.
They are average formulaic SF novels on the theme of finding inhabital worlds. These books follow a team of "last chance trouble makers" who must investigate these worlds.
Not as good as the earlier works by Cooper.

The full review can be found here:

https://nordie.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/book-review-the-overman-culture-by-edmun...

The beginning of this book felt like a Valerie Solanis fever dream and (not suprisingly) degraded into unreadable garbage.

This is a really good classic sci fi book. Thoughtful, interesting, unique, fast paced, with interesting ideas, problems to solve, and some nice character interactions.

I probably really only give it a 4.5, but the .5 off is for a somewhat rushed ending, but I'm going to give him a break as it was probably page limit requirements by the publisher, so common in that era, that forced him to rush it.