The Fury from Earth

By Dean McLaughlin

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• ISBN: B0032DEK3A
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Pyramid Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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The Sin of the Scientist

Dean McLaughlin's _The Fury from Earth_ (1963) was McLaughlin's second science fiction novel. [The first was _Dome World_ (1962).] _Fury_ is a longish paperback original that depicts a brutal and vicious interplanetary war that breaks out between Earth and her Venusian colonies. McLaughlin makes it clear that the cause of the war has more to do with Earth's Imperialism than with Venusian rebelliousness. The characters in the novel (some of whom are scientists) are both well-rounded and complex. But the author gradually reveals that even scientists who seem kindly, educated, and liberal may nevertheless have a moral "blind spot" that allows them to endorse horrific practices upon millions of innocent people. I am reminded of a conversation between John Kenneth Galbraith (1999) and an RAF pilot shortly after World War II. The pilot had recently interviewed many of the Nazi leaders now held in prison. "Who would have thought," the pilot said, "that we were fighting the greatest war in history against that bunch of jerks?" (66). _Reference_: Galbraith, John K. _Name Dropping: From FDR On_. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.