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John Rankine (1918–2013)

Autor/a de Moon Odyssey

42+ obres 786 Membres 8 Ressenyes

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Nota de desambiguació:

(eng) John Rankine was born as Douglas Rankine Mason and wrote as both John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason.

Obres de John Rankine

Moon Odyssey (1975) 77 exemplars
Lunar Attack (1975) 69 exemplars
Eight Against Utopia (1966) 66 exemplars
Astral Quest (1975) 60 exemplars
Android Planet (1976) 49 exemplars
Matrix (1969) 48 exemplars
Moons of Triopus (1969) 41 exemplars
The End Bringers (1973) 41 exemplars
Operation Umanaq (1973) 40 exemplars
Phoenix of Megaron (1976) 39 exemplars
Horizon Alpha (1971) 37 exemplars
Satellite 54-Zero (1971) 28 exemplars
Dilation Effect (1971) 25 exemplars
Interstellar Two-Five (1966) 21 exemplars
Ring of Violence (1969) 18 exemplars
The Phaeton Condition (1973) 16 exemplars
The Bromius Phenomenon (1973) 14 exemplars
Binary Z (1969) 11 exemplars
The Weisman experiment (1969) 11 exemplars
One Is One (1968) 10 exemplars
The Typhon Intervention (1981) 7 exemplars
Ring of Garamas (1971) 4 exemplars
The Janus Syndrome (1973) 4 exemplars
Tuo Yaw (2003) 2 exemplars
The Fingalnan Conspiracy (1973) 2 exemplars
Science Fiction Special 25 (1978) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Tower of Rizwan (2003) 1 exemplars
In the Eye of the Storm (2003) 1 exemplars
Darkling Plain (2003) 1 exemplars
Pitman's Progress (1976) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Never the Same Door (1967) 1 exemplars
The Plantos Affair (1971) 1 exemplars
Fletcher Chronicles (2003) 1 exemplars
Forgotten Rocket (2003) 1 exemplars
Maiden Voyage [novelette] (1964) 1 exemplars
The Vort Programme (1979) 1 exemplars
Euphor Unfree (1977) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

New Writings in SF-1 (1964) — Col·laborador — 126 exemplars
New Writings in SF-7 (1966) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 101 exemplars
New Writings in SF-2 (1964) — Col·laborador — 94 exemplars
New Writings in SF-9 (1966) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
New Writings in SF-10 (1966) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
New Writings in SF-21 (1972) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
New Writings in SF-11 (1967) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
New Writings in SF-16 (1969) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Sociology Through Science Fiction (1974) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Mason, Douglas Rankine
Altres noms
Mason, Douglas Rankine (birth name)
Data de naixement
1918-09-26
Data de defunció
2013-08-08
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
UK
Lloc de naixement
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Lloc de defunció
Bristol, England, UK
Nota de desambiguació
John Rankine was born as Douglas Rankine Mason and wrote as both John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason.

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Could not get past the first chapters. Clunky writing and confusing characters made it feel like the pilot episode of a particularly cheesy '70s made-for-TV series. Perhaps it got better but I lost all interest in finding out.
 
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NurseBob | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Nov 5, 2023 |
Whilst this is Rankine's first edition, his 3rd and the last edition is still used today in the practice and study of Scots Law in the areas of Landlord and Tenant law and law of leases.

Unfortunately, there is no collective effort to have his 3rd edition reprinted, however, for some odd reason there is an effort to reprint his 1st edition.
 
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ScotsLawyer | Jul 17, 2022 |
The plot could have come from Dick: are Bob and Ava, fleeing from aliens in a future time when Earth's empire is receding, really just a shared dream of Ben and Averil in an earlier future where Earth is dividing into North and South Hemisphere mega-complexes, warring over equatorial rights to mining an exotic new metal. Even the details are pulp SF as in Dick, e.g., Heinlein's "roads must roll" moving walkways (this in 1971).

Unfortunately, where Dick mastered the slippery reality plot, here the dichotomy just sits there until a final unconvincing resolution. And where Dick was conflictedly misogynistic, Mason is just repellently sexist in 1960s Playboy mode, with toss-off phrases like "one hot babe" and "pneumatic", and a repeated occurrence of having the main female characters naked and strapped spread-eagle for torture.

I have no idea what the title refers to.

Not recommended in the slightest.
… (més)
 
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ChrisRiesbeck | Jan 18, 2021 |
This is the third of Rankine's DAG FLETCHER novels. It is my first book by this author. I think I would have loved it as a teen. Tough guys and cool girls in space. I just can't be bothered to finish it.

Rankine wrote a lot of the "SPACE 1999" TV shows. Some of his other novels may be OK but I'm not really interested in finding out.
½
 
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ikeman100 | Aug 28, 2019 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
42
També de
9
Membres
786
Popularitat
#32,384
Valoració
3.0
Ressenyes
8
ISBN
75
Llengües
1

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