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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Syndic. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by C.M. Kornbluth, which is now, at last, again available to you.Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Syndic in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Syndic: Look inside the book: 'Before it ended North America was to see deeds as gallant and strategy as inspired as any in the history of war: Cleveland's historic announcement'It's a great day for the race 'his death at the head of his runners in a charge on the Fort Totten garrison, the firm hand of Amadeo Falcaro taking up the scattered reins of leadership, parley, peace, betrayal and execution of hostages, the Treaty of Las Vegas and a united Mob-Syndic front against Government, O'Toole's betrayal of the Continental Press wire room and the bloody battle to recapture that crucial nerve center, the decisive march on Baltimore....'...I haven't a farthing to my name and here's this chap in the village telling me to clear out of Fallowfield that I got from my father and his father before him… (more)
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The book is set in a post apocalyptic near future, but in this case splitting the atom wasn't the culprit. Corrupt,
It's easy to come to the book expecting that our protagonist will learn that Government by Organized Crime is wrong, and somehow help to engineer a successful return of Representative Democracy, but that's not at all what Kornbluth has in mind.
In the end we're left with a message something like "People are people, whatever side they are on. 'Isms' aren't inherently superior, and blindly fighting for a cause is likely to do more harm than good." Not a bad message for the post partisan world into which some of us hope we may move.
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Omslaget viser en højteknologisk tarzan-type
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
(Sphere science fiction)
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Gutenberg, bind 41714
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