description: Review by Hank Stine."This book is a crime. If it is as common a crime as smoking marijuana, it is no matter: the offense is the same. That it was committed by an author of Harry Harrison only compounds the crime. There was simply no reason for this book to have been written &amp; no reason to read it...There's nothing new in this, nothing exciting, nothing daring or original or imaginative, nothing but a contrived hackwork on a theme borrowed from writers who borrowed from writers who...That is not to say that the book is not well written. Each &amp; every paragraph is technically perfect. Harrison has been writing too long not to know how to write a good, serviceable sentence. The first scene is the best piece of action writing to be found outside Laumer." 
language: English
title: Captive universe
titlecomplete: Captive universe
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Collections, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, 20th Century
ratings_count: 526
publisher: Sphere