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| Cover art by EMSH (per the ISFDB) |
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| THE HUMANOIDS Jack Williamson New York: Lancer Books, November 1963 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| Lancer Catalog No. 74-812 | ||||
| ASIN: B006N4660K | 178pp. | SC | $0.75 | |
| Page 20: | "For rhodomagnetic energy was propagated with an infinite velocity, and its effects varied paradoxically with only the first power and now the square of the distance." |
| Typo: S/B "not". |
| Page 47: | ""With his thinning yellowish hair and fat red face, he looked more like a show salesman than an interplanetary spy." |
| Typo: S/B "shoe". |
| Page 55: | "...the old president stood tottering before a battery of new cameras to announce the coming of the mechanicals." |
| Typo: S/B "news". |
| Pages 56-57: | "Back at Starmont, Forester hurried down to the project without even taking time to call Ruth, and worked that night and all the next day without sleep, modifying three missiles. Light would take two long centuries to reach Wing IV, but these tapered shapes of death had their own dreadful geometry. The time quantity, in the equations of rhodomagnetic propulsion, varied with the fourth root of distance. Wing IV, consequently, was only a few seconds farther than the nearest planet." |
| An example of the over-the-top science in the novel. |
| Page 61: | "...the members of the luquidated Defense Authority..." |
| Typo: S/B "liquidated". |
| Page 61: | "...the warcraft of the Triplant Powers..." |
| Typo: S/B "Triplanet". |
| Page 94: | "The lurching armored monster swerved intantly to cut him off." |
| Typo: S/B "instantly". |
| Page 94: | "The wallowing machine had almost buried itself in clouds of yellow dust and flying rocks, and the leaning wreck of the building was again in view, close beyind it, when a round stone turned beneath Forester's foot." |
| Typo: S/B "beyond" or "behind". |
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