A review by gengelcox
Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

If you get past the ludicrous idea of life on Jupiter and think of this as set in a different planet and…no, it’s still ludicrous. Okay, think of it as a fantasy. It’s a product of its time, what with the cigarette and cigar smoking on a space station, but the underlying story of the mind of a person who has a debilitating injury who can project their mind into that of a healthy body is both obvious and affecting. The psychologist Cornelius reads the tea leaves wrong initially, partly to throw the reader off the obvious, but the ending helps make this work and resolve the story well.