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Title: Godshome by Robert Sheckley ISBN: 0-312-86804-9 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: It has its moments, but overall disjoint and unfocused
Comment: Robert Sheckley has written some great, absurd satire, so I'm interested when he comes up with something new. I enjoyed the early chapters of this book, but as it went along, it simply lost focus, randomly introducing and abandoning characters and situations. It was clever in many ways, but the disintegrating structure lost me.

Sheckley wrote many short stories in the 1950's and 60's, and some say those were his best work. It has probably always been a challenge for him to hold a long story together. But some of his novels have been great -- my favorites are "Mindswap" and "Journey of Joenes". Most of his work is out of print, but it's worth looking for if you've got a taste for the absurd.

Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful, absurdist nonsense from a master satirist!
Comment: Those who have arrived at Robert Sheckley's literary doorstep via one of his t.v. or movie-based science fiction serial novels (Deep Space Nine, Aliens, Babylon 5) are sure to experience major disorientation with "Godshome." But those who are already acquainted with the brilliantly original writing of this masterful, erudite nutcase will be delighted to encounter vintage Sheckley--complete with a shaggy dog storyline, chuckleheaded characters, and biting, unrelenting, Swiftian wit. Robert Sheckley is to science fiction what Botticelli was to the Renaissance--a maverick original who's impossible to compare with anyone else in his time, but without whom, the era would be less rich. With "Godshome," Sheckley is not content merely to satirize human folly; he brazenly satirizes existence and the very universe itself, by pairing together, as he always does, mundanity and magnitude in a wacky cosmic tango. "Godshome" is a fun, thoughtful read and I highly recommend it.

Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth the time
Comment: This book had some interesting ideas and situations in it, but the author never bothered to bring closure to any of it. The focus shifts bewilderingly from character to character without much in the way of a unifying plot to it. The final pages are a stopping point rather than an ending or resolution. It was extremely frustrating to have spent the time reading this book, only to seemingly watch the whole thing come apart by the finish and result in nothing.

I won't be reading this author in the future. And I'd suggest the publisher hire better editors.