Jem

Paperback | 10 May 2001 | Edition Number 1

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The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', Jem is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels.

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Instead of wiping out tawdry political rivalries on an overpopulated and over-armed Earth, the future discovery of a new inhabitable planet (Jem) just doubles the madness. In reckless haste, each of the three great power blocs (Food, Fuel, and People, exporters respectively of grain, oil, and labor) spends untold amounts of precious energy to get its own settlement on Jem. While their masters on Earth joyously use events on Jem as fuel for ever more brainless brinkmanship, the Terran colonies set about ravaging the new planet and arming the three intelligent and mutually inimical native races, whose antagonism has hitherto taken only the comparatively peaceful form of eating each other. Some of Pohl's writing here is hasty; most is effortlessly to the point: every act of stupidity, aggression, and irresponsibility is carried out by a recognizable intelligence acting by all-too-recognizable lights. And though this is a more conventional narrative than the dazzling Gateway (1977), its political seriousness should reach out beyond the limits of a strictly science-fiction audience. (Kirkus Reviews)

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