Rule Golden & Other Stories

by Damon Knight

Book Overview

Damon Knight's _Rule Golden and Other Stories (1979) is a collection of five excellent novellas from the fifties that were dealing with "the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380436469
• ISBN13: 9780380436460
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Rule Golden was WONDERFUL!

Damon Knight is an extremely talented author. Rule Golden (a story about an Alien who imposes a reverse golden rule on humans, "Be done by as you do.") is an excellent example of his writing. I can't imagine that the things that have happened since this story was written (as the only other reviewer maintains) could take the edge off this story. No aliens have landed, have they? People are still perfectly willing to kill others, aren't they? Perhaps he doesn't like the morality of it, but that's rather like saying that the bible or the writings of Buddha are out of date.