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All Judgement Fled by James White

All Judgment Fled

by James White

Winner of the 1979 Europa Prize

 

"Six Earthmen board a huge alien spacecraft passing through the Solar System.  They must decide which of its multi-alien crew/passengers are sentient enough for meaningful communication.  '. . .develops remorselessly and with an authenticity of detail that seems to belie the fictional basis' (Books and Bookmen).  For the ending alone, it knocks Rendezvous with Rama into a cocked space helmet."

"The Old Earth titles are reprints of two of White's best non-Sector General novels.  The Watch Below was a Hugo nominee.  It's about a group of people who survive underwater in a 'generation ship,' a tanker sunk in World War II.  They turn out to have a lot in common with aliens coming to colonize the Earth's oceans.  It's a gripping read, and, rather remarkably, the reader's credulity is not overly strained.  All Judgment Fled is blurbed, like Watch, 'a novel of first contact.'  It's a solid, less flamboyant version of the Rendezvous with Rama scenario, written first, in 1968.  Back in the old days, these would be the sort of books Ballantine or Ace would keep in print indefinitely.  Those days are gone.  Be grateful to Old Earth Books for doing what they can."
— Darrell Schweitzer

"Then there's All Judgment Fled, my personal favorite.  I never knew quite how to describe it until Rendezvous with Rama came out and won the 1974 Hugo.  Now I just tell people that if they want to read Rama done right (sorry, Arthur), pick up All Judgment Fled. "Like Rama, this one has a mysterious space vehicle approaching the Earth, and, like Rama, a human crew goes out to investigate it.  "But unlike Rama, the solution to the multitude of frustrating puzzles is logical and satisfying - and you don't have to hunt up the sequel(s) to find out what it is."
– Mike Resnick, The White Papers

The OEB text is shot from a copy of the first UK hardcover (Rapp & Whiting, London, 1968). Cover art is by Baltimore based book designer Julie Buris.

Order from PathwayTrade Paperback • ISBN 1882968-07-7 • $15.00

 

The Watch Below by James White

The Watch Below

by James White

 

"The setting for this story is a W.W.II tanker which is sunk, but which finds zero buoyancy below the surface due to a trapped air pocket, where a few have survived.  At the same time an Alien race heads for Earth, where they become unlikely saviours.  This book is considered by many be James's finest work"

"The Watch Below?  Fabulous story.  In fact, two fabulous stories that dovetail beautifully by the end of the book."
– Mike Resnick, The White Papers
 

The OEB text is shot from a copy of the first UK hardcover (Whiting & Wheaton, London, 1966).  Cover art is by Baltimore based book designer Julie Buris.

Order from PathwayTrade Paperback • ISBN 1882968-08-5 • $15.00

 
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