Dome World

By Dean McLaughlin

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710249209
• ISBN13: 9780710249203
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Pyramid Books
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Deep Sea Revolutionaries

Dean Mclaughlin's _Dome World_ (1962) was his first science fiction novel. A portion of the novel originally appeared as a novella entitled "The Man on the Bottom" (_Astounding_, 1958). The trusty _Speculative Fiction Database_ states that the original story was drastically rewritten for the purposes of the book. I believe, on the balance, that the rewrite was the better version. McLaughlin imagines in some detail the physical and social characteristics of an undersea colony. He further recognizes that such an undersea dome world would be particularly vulnerable to threatened attacks from unscrupulous countries. Can such a colony win independence from the upper world? Mclaughlin believes that it is possible. But as I have gotten a bit older and a touch more cynical than in my high school days, I am not completely persuaded that it would work. It is still entertaining to watch the author suggest how it might be done. The original Pyramid paperback cover is a lovely, action-packed painting credited to Ed Emshwiller.