This World Is Taboo

author: Murray Leinster
name: Bodhipaksa
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 09/08
date added: 09/02/08
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review:
This World Is Taboo is classic sci-fi from 1961, although there’s very much a 1950′s feel about the dialog and characterization. The hero, Calhoun, is an itinerant medical worker but with the quick wit and instincts of a Sam Spade. The plot does have some points to make about discrimination, although the sex roles are pure 1950s. Leinster wrote well for a science fiction author of his era, and at times he writes with a good deal of psychological insight. This short novel is worth a read as one of the better sci-fi novels of its time.