The Last Starship from Earth

Boyd, John (pseud. of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch). The Last Starship from Earth. New York: Berkley, 1968.

Features a computer-run "hive" dystopia, but with a surprise twist which reveals that a mechanically rigid society is only part of the full reality of the novel's world. Discussed by Warrick, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction 188-90.[] See under Literary Criticism the essay by J. Hipolito "The Last and First Starship from Earth".

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