Review of Space Is the Place (1974) by Sonya W — 27 Jan 2008
The Overseer sees to it the youth of America are led astray by his false promises of wealth and power; the kids grow jaded to what is true and valuable in the universe. Meanwhile, in a galaxy far away, Sun Ra has found a beautiful planet ripe for colonization and sets out to wrest the youth from the Overseer and transmolecularly teleport them all to this new world. But will they go?
'Overseer' was the slave-days term for the master's puppet slave appointed as work-boss over the 'employees', and Harriet Tubman famously said she might have freed more slaves had she been able to convince them that they WERE slaves. Ra discovers its one thing to get them out, and quite another to make them want to go.
So ... which will it be? Stay here on Earth with pills and girls and gold to break the boredom? Or will you sign up with Outerspaceways Incorporated?
This review of Space Is the Place (1974) was written by Sonya W on 27 Jan 2008.
Space Is the Place has generally received positive reviews.
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