Reviews for The crack in space

The average rating for The crack in space based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-14 00:00:00 Charlotte Shirley ENGLISH (The Crack in Space) / ITALIANO "The young couple, black-haired, dark-skinned, probably Mexican or Puerto Rican, stood nervously at Herb Lackmore's counter and the boy, the husband, said in a low voice, «Sir, we want to be put to sleep. We want to become bibs»"The earth is overpopulated. Very high levels of unemployment (but not for white people). It's better to hibernate while waiting for better times. And here comes a crack in space, which seems to drive directly to a new planet, similar to the Earth, entirely to colonize. Maybe it's time for the poorest and oppressed people to have a chance. It's time to awake. The standard visionary Philip K. Dick. Vote: 7 "I due giovani, una coppia, capelli e pelle scuri, probabilmente messicani o portoricani, stazionavano nervosamente davanti al bancone di Herb Lackmore, e il ragazzo, il marito, disse in un sussurro, «Signore, vogliamo essere messi a dormire, vogliamo diventare inerti»"Terra sovrappopolata. Livelli di disoccupazione esorbitanti (non per i bianchi, però). Meglio ibernarsi in attesa di tempi migliori. Ed ecco che una breccia nello spazio sembra portare direttamente ad una nuovo pianeta, del tutto simile alla Terra, completamente da colonizzare. Forse è giunto il tempo in cui anche la popolazione più povera e oppressa ha a disposizione la sua possibilità. E' ora di ridestarsi. Il solito visionario ed attuale Philip K. Dick. Voto: 7

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-19 00:00:00 James Killebrew The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick deals with social and political issues, especially racial issues. I wrote a review of Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein where the grandmaster explored elements of racism. True, both writers go about the business clumsily and with not a small bit of racism themselves, but I would remind a gentle twenty-first century reader that these writers put their thoughts down in the 1960s and the effort was courageous in and of itself. This also examines sexual, moral and ethical issues as they affect overpopulation, prostitution, marriage and political organizations. The first part sets up a future world plagued by overpopulation and political apathy, the second part, where Dick’s genius really comes out, is where a portal to an alternate world is discovered. An obvious relief for the overcrowding problems, the portal is unfortunately, already inhabited. References to North American colonization by Europeans, and an exploration of the morality of such an emigration ensues, but only the way PKD could write it, with a hefty portion of hilarious political cynicism. Dick also uses the planned emigration as a twisted metaphor for racial prejudice. I read a Heinlein short story where each person had a chance to have their own alternate universe home, all connected together by portals back to a common earth. Also, the Hugo award wining Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer explores this same phenomena and may well have been inspired by this 1966 PKD novel. The ending was a little skewed, and the novel as a whole was inconsistent, but all in all this is a good PKD adventure: PKD readers will enjoy the orbiting brothel owned by a one headed Siamese twin with two bodies.