Paperback, 142 pages
English language
Published Dec. 19, 1967 by Ace Books.
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Der junge Lo Lobey ist ein Mutant. Er und andere seiner Art sind die neuen Erben der Erde. Sie haben eine Welt übernommen und bevölkert, die von den Menschen längst verlassen ist. Doch sie verfolgen Ziele, die auch den früheren Bewohnern der Erde erstrebenswert erschienen.
Lo Lobey, einem neuen Orpheus gleich, der Eurydike sucht, verläßt sein stilles Dorf, durchquert gefährliche Dschungel und Wüsten, erlebt den Irrsinn einer Superstadt und begegnet den lebenden Toten.
There are some writers whose style prevents me from immersion in the story, Samuel R. Delany is just such an author. Clearly he's a man with a great imagination, but his prose style is confounding to me. Just his dialogue scenes are enough to shut down my imagination. Three characters will be chatting, and none of their lines will have any attribution. That's great every once in a while, but that is this author's M.O. See also Babel-17.
I have no idea what I just read, and I think that might be the point. It was beautiful though like an acid trip is beautiful. In this case it probably does have some slightly more profound meaning, but for now I kind of just feel like I'm coming down and everything is a little less real.
Delany's prose scintillates and mesmerizes.
