A pigeon dating game? Even in Japan, that's got to be unusual.
It's a lot weirder than that makes it sound.
Some classics there, some of which I need to read as well. Should/may I ask which one you did not read?
I haven't read Heinlein's Double Star (1956), which is the one rushthatspeaks recommends. I've read A Case of Conscience (1958), but remember almost nothing about it; I can't remember if I read The Space Merchants (1952) or The Long Tomorrow (1955) or if I only saw them around the house. I don't think I read The Shrinking Man (1956), but I might be confusing it with memories of not seeing the movie.
The one I really want to re-read is Budrys' Who? (1958), because I remember it as the kind of science fiction which could very easily not be: the central character's identity is in question because he has been rebuilt as a nuclear-powered cyborg following—supposedly—a terrible accident, but if you shifted its Cold War politics back about fifty years and gave him plastic surgery, you'd have the same knot of paranoia and spycraft. I remember liking it, but I suspect I was too young to pick up most of the nuances. Fortunately, it seems it won't be hard for me to find a copy at all.
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It's a lot weirder than that makes it sound.
Some classics there, some of which I need to read as well. Should/may I ask which one you did not read?
I haven't read Heinlein's Double Star (1956), which is the one
The one I really want to re-read is Budrys' Who? (1958), because I remember it as the kind of science fiction which could very easily not be: the central character's identity is in question because he has been rebuilt as a nuclear-powered cyborg following—supposedly—a terrible accident, but if you shifted its Cold War politics back about fifty years and gave him plastic surgery, you'd have the same knot of paranoia and spycraft. I remember liking it, but I suspect I was too young to pick up most of the nuances. Fortunately, it seems it won't be hard for me to find a copy at all.