Heads

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Greg Bear: Heads (Hardcover, 1990, Century)

Hardcover, 125 pages

English language

Published April 28, 1990 by Century.

ISBN:
978-0-7126-3678-0
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OCLC Number:
21599426

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3 stars (5 reviews)

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4 stars

A novella, definitely. A snapshot of a snapshot. Lunar colony, years beyond. A great experiment to reach zero state, a newly purchased lot of 420 frozen head corpsicles and new politics with a reason to cover things up.

It's short, it's rather simple, but there is nothing wrong with that. Bear has a good sense of the human touch without having to describe molecular interactions. His books as far as I've read are comfort reads within a sci-fi realm. Not bubble gum, but I don't hit Wikipedia every other page because my physics is below passing.

This book covers some interesting characters, a bit of rambunctious naivety and how aging strips us of much of these things for traded hard wisdom. Then a moment happens, and this is really all just a reflection--but we knew this all along. What happened, something.. something that is not really good at finding vocabulary …

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