G.O.G. 666
Author | John Taine |
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Cover artist | John T. Brooks |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Fantasy Press |
Publication date | 1954 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 256 pp |
OCLC | 1625086 |
G.O.G. 666 is a science fiction novel by author John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,815 copies.
Plot introduction[]
The novel concerns Russian genetics experiments resulting in a being that is half ape, half brain.
Reception[]
Anthony Boucher received the novel unfavorably, describing it as "slow and muddled" and saying that "Neither story nor science can stand comparison with Taine's best work."[1] P. Schuyler Miller reported that "it's not the best Taine."[2] New Worlds reviewer dismissed the novel as "science-fiction of the most boring and tasteless sort", saying "this literary lapse of a once-great fantasy author should have suffered the oblivion it deserved, had it not been for the overenthusiasm of a specialist science-fiction press".[3]
References[]
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 240.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 36. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
- 1954 American novels
- 1954 science fiction novels
- American science fiction novels
- Works by Eric Temple Bell
- Works published under a pseudonym
- Novels set in Russia
- 1950s science fiction novel stubs