The Zen Gun

by Barrington J. Bayley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879978511
• ISBN13: 9780879978518
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant but eclectic

Perhaps not for everyone, but I found this book to be fresh, complex, humorous, and fast-paced. And hidden in with the pure zaniness is some depth, like how old and powerful empires decay, and the dynamics of conflict when one side has polished and perfected tactics, and the other fresh energy but is in a desperate race to learn the rules before being crushed.... It's all thrown together into a giant pile but for me it works.

Zen master Barrington Bayley

An entertaining and absorbing romp through space aboard a battle class pleasure ship in search of the ultimate weapon. While developing a new space drive, humans have accidentally torn a hole in space, annoying nearby aliens, and inadvertently releasing strange creatures who mold matter indisciminately. As a human-primate chimera and his samurai escort quest for the power of the zen gun, intelligent animals threaten to take control of the empire. Even though the moon is falling from the sky, and the robots are on strike, there is always time for a brief physics lesson or two. Barrington J. Bayley is not only a great storyteller, he is also a master of the English language.