Sidney's Comet

By Brian Herbert

Book Overview

For centuries the slobs that inhabit the Earth have been rocketing their refuse into the galaxy, carelessly littering the cosmos with wrappers and peelings and bottles and cans. But now the universe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425059723
• ISBN13: 9780425059722
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the most bizarre futures imaginable.

I found this odd book on someone's favorite book list ... Since that person liked a lot of other books I liked, I figured I'd give it a look. What I found was one of the most bizarre futures (600 years hence) imaginable. I couldn't figure out if Herbert was trying to make a twisted anti-consumerism Brave New World or what, but all of a sudden I realized - this is a ... good story. The premise, about a "garbage comet", was really almost incidental to the story and should not be considered a negative.

great book!

This book is not only good and witty sci. fi., it is also aparody of the American obsessiopn with consumer's society and endlesscommercials. How would you like to live in a society where great majority of people has brain implants who emit signals for example of being itchy when there is a commercial for spray to ease itching, and symptoms subside as soon as you order the spray etc.