Gunner Cade

by Cyril Judd

Paperback, 1966

Status

Available

Call number

813

Publication

Penguin Books

Description

Gunner Cade had Intelligence, Loyalty, immense skill in combat-and a philosophy. But never in his life had he been required to think-and he did his thinking only under the most violent pressure. Gunner cade was a most sincere, and exceedingly stubborn man. He was loyal to his government-and nothing is more dangerous to a government then making an outlaw of a stubbornly honest man. You can trap a man in patterns of behavior; you can make him believe life is to complex to understand. But if you force him out of the pattern, and he is a powerful, determined man-he'll smash that pattern. Classical Science Fiction at it's best.

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LibraryThing member ikeman100
There are a least three SF books written by Cyril Judd. The authors are really Judith Merril and Cyril Kornbluth. Both were successful pulp magazine short story writers in the "Golden Age" of SF.

Judith Merril is known as one of the best science fiction anthology editors of the period. She wrote a
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couple of novels solo and three with Kornbluth.

Cyril Kornbluth was a prolific SF writer selling dozens of short stories to the pulps. Along with his collaborations with Merril he co wrote at least 5 novels with Frederik Pohl and some solo novels. The Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl were married at that time so working with both of them was easy.

Unfortunately the Cyril Judd novels were average fair for the period. This book is the most popular and has some very good writing. The overall story is week. I will not read another of the Cyril Judd books. There are too many great SF novels waiting to be read.
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Original publication date

1952
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