A Choice of Gods
by Clifford D Simak
commentary
copyright 1977
read in August 2024
rated 4/10: bad but could be read
I have this special category of "commentary": author's opinion, perhaps mixed in with fiction.
This book seems to be the author's opinion: how sweet it would be if 99% of the world's people disappeared. Oh yes, and if the remaining 1% gained eternal life, perfect health, teleportation and telepathy.
Having set the scene he then bores the reader to tears with a combination of religious and spiritual nonsense and lack of clarity.
Just one example of stupidity: A survivor decides that the remaining 1% should have a record of what happens. One day he writes, nothing has happened. Except that his wife is exchanging news with friends. Not worth adding the wife's news to the journal, it's just "woman's talk".
So... probably not worth mentioning the births, deaths and marriages of the remaining population of Earth. Even the patriarchal Bible recognises the importance of begatting to the human race.
The book is rubbish.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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