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MURRAY LEINSTER/JAMES BRADWELL
Land of the Giants


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Murray Leinster, The Trap
World Distributors, Manchester, 1969
(price: 3/6; 144 pages)

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James Bradwell, The Mean City
World Distributors, Manchester, 1969
(price: 3/6; 144 pages)


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The blurb on the back:

Where were they?
The grass was six feet high - the trees as tall as skyscrapers - insects the size of dogs - and men and women were 70-foot giants!
Supersonic Flight 703, Los Angeles-London, had made an emergency landing in unknown territory, and the passengers and crew stared in horror at the monstrous world around them.
When night came and they saw the stars, they knew the worst - for it was not the familiar stars of Earth's sky that shone on them...
One of the most incredible adventures of all time is under way, as the seven castaways of Flight 703 face the shattering fact that they are prisoners in the
LAND OF THE GIANTS


opening lines:
It was well after nightfall when the last-minute preparations for Spindthrift's flight were finished.


From back in the days when American TV specialized in interminable semi-SF adventure serials like Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... here's another. And, as it happens, it's from Irwin Allen, the man who gave us those other shows as well.

Now, the idea of small people in a big world was explored so thoroughly by Dean Swift in Gulliver's Travels, and with such a superb satirical undercurrent, that you'd have thought there was no point in anyone doing it all again unless you really had something original to say. But they did. They've been doing it again and again for years, with no purpose whatsoever.

In truth, Land of the Giants wasn't entirely unwatchable. But it was entirely pointless. And the novels are an entire waste of my time and yours, even if one's written by Murray Leinster, a respectable and respected SF writer.

Great covers, though.


ARTISTIC MERIT: 1/5
ENTERTAINMENT VALUE:
2/5
HIPNESS QUOTIENT:
4/5


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