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ainsleym's review
4.0
Well paced and engaging. Pretty interesting. Not too misogynistic. Overall enjoyed reading this and would read more from Gordon R Dickson.
tome15's review
4.0
Dickson, Gordon R. The Alien Way. Bantam, 1965.
Gordon R. Dickson was a Hugo and Nebula award wining author who never got as much public attention as some of his contemporaries. He wrote a lot of novellas and short stories and several long-running novel series. He was one of those writers whose name I always looked for on the covers of magazines and racks of paperbacks in the 1960s and ‘70s. The Alien Way is a typical example of his work. A man links his mind to an alien who sees himself as spearheading an invasion of earth. So far it is typical of a story that might have appeared in a Twilight Zone episode. But it is not the mental link that saves the day for humanity, but research in popular magazines. Our hero actually combs his way through the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, now online if you want to try your hand at it. Thus, we feel that we too could find the key to defeating the alien hordes. No wonder he was a comfort to me when I was a student.
Gordon R. Dickson was a Hugo and Nebula award wining author who never got as much public attention as some of his contemporaries. He wrote a lot of novellas and short stories and several long-running novel series. He was one of those writers whose name I always looked for on the covers of magazines and racks of paperbacks in the 1960s and ‘70s. The Alien Way is a typical example of his work. A man links his mind to an alien who sees himself as spearheading an invasion of earth. So far it is typical of a story that might have appeared in a Twilight Zone episode. But it is not the mental link that saves the day for humanity, but research in popular magazines. Our hero actually combs his way through the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, now online if you want to try your hand at it. Thus, we feel that we too could find the key to defeating the alien hordes. No wonder he was a comfort to me when I was a student.
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