6.8 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Series Herald Childe Media type Print Genre Science Fiction | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1973 Originally published 1973 Followed by Image of the Beast Publisher Ballantine Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cover artist Hans Ulrich & Ute Osterwalder Preceded by The Other Log of Phileas Fogg Similar Philip José Farmer books, Agriculturist books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traitor to the Living (1973) is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer. The story follows Herald Childe, a private detective. Childe is also the lead character in two prior Farmer novels published as pornography by Essex House. In this non-erotic novel, the lead character is clearly Herald Childe, but it follows the events of a never-written third book which left Childe amnesiac.
Reception
Lester del Rey found the novel to be "fascinating, and a good adventure thriller." Edgar L. Chapman described it as "a novel of serious intrigue, quite conventional in its treatment of sex," but faulted it because it "not only lacks humor, but does not create much suspense either."
References
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