7.4 /10 1 Votes
Language English Media type Print (Hardback) OCLC 1296689 Cover artist Edd Cartier Genres Novel, Science Fiction | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 1950 Pages 190 pp Originally published 1950 Publisher Gnome Press Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Minions of the Moon is a science fiction novel by author William Gray Beyer, originally serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1939. It was published in book form in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel is a space opera about a contemporary man who awakens in the far future.
Reception
Boucher and McComas gave Minions a mixed review, describing it as "a conventional enough sleeper-wakes-into-retrograde-world story, but told with a fine blend of high romantic adventure and lively absurdity.". Damon Knight found the novel an "old-style romance, somewhat the worse for wear". P. Schuyler Miller declared that the author's treatment of "Omega, [the] puckish, hammish disembodied superintelligence, last survivor of the lunar race of whatsits," sets the novel apart from the routine.