A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Sep 06, 2008 Stephen rated it really liked it

Shelves: award-winner-hugo, multiple-award-nominee, locus-all-time-science-fiction-poll, 1954-1969, award-nominee-hugo, alien-cultures, audiobook, easton-press, religion-spirituality, award-nominee-british-sf

4.5 stars. I am a big fan of James Blish. This book is an expansion of the earlier novella of the same name. Part 1 of the book (i.e., the original novella) is a 6.0 star story and is extremely powerful. Part 2, while good, is not as exceptional and brings the overall rating for the book down to 4.5 stars. Overall, still a highly recommended read. [Reread on March 1, 2010:].

Winner: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1959)
Nominee: British Science Fiction Award (Retro) for Best Novel (195 ...more

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Nov 21, 2008 NebulousGloom (FK) rated it did not like it

Shelves: quit-in-the-middle

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Feb 11, 2009 Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, fiktion, klassiker, libere, speculative-fiction, award-winner, 1950s, hugo-award, easton-press-masterpieces

Part one of this book was amazing, easily five stars! I actually would of preferred if it ended right there. Part two was, well... pretty confusing. I am wondering if all the pages somehow got mixed up then put back together but still completely out of order. Hmmm, I still think that is what happened, ha. I really enjoyed the last part of the book though, so part two I would give three stars.

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Jan 27, 2011 Andrew rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-masterworks

This is a clever and thoughtful book by a much underrated author, he has many credits to his name. His work is from another era but is as easily readable now as it as then. They are hard to find but his work is worth looking for.

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Sep 04, 2013 Peter rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sciencefiction

Basically a convoluted Catholic apologetics novel. It's not without interesting ideas, however (completely logic based civilizations=demon worlds needing exorcism is not among them, however). ...more

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