The Dueling Machine, by Ben Bova
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The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
The Dueling Machine, by Ben Bova- Amazon Sales Rank: #7888339 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .18" w x 8.50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 76 pages
About the Author Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction, including "Able One", "Leviathans of Jupiter" and the Grand Tour novels, including "Titan", winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and in 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature." He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a former editor of "Analog" and former fiction editor of "Omni". As an editor, he won science fiction s Hugo Award six times. Dr. Bova s writings have predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), electronic book publishing, and much more. He lives in Florida.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Dueling Machine (Alas, does not only facilitate duels) By Mithridates VI of Pontus This novel feels like two separate stories connected by the presence of the dueling machine. The story when the dueling machine is a dueling machine and the story when the Bova decides that the dueling machine is also teleporter and a therapy device and only occasionally used for duels. The first part of the novel deserves five stars while the second (after the machine's use transformation) flounders around at the level of dismal cliché.(When the Dueling machine is a Dueling machine)This part is simply amazing. It conjures images of Asimov's Foundation series with some forward plot movement. Dueling machines invented by Dr Leoh (one of the main characters) have helped to bring stability to the galaxy since when people get very angry at each other they simply hop into the box and fight in imaginary worlds they have created in their minds: on planetoids with pebbles, on horses with pikes, in deserts with clubs, on glaciers with oxygen bombs, and in a lab that explores the basic rules of physics with physics. This does present the greatest confusion of the story, how in the world can a mind create worlds as complicated as these? Does the machine add stability to an imaginary world? But, Ben Bova raises interesting questions about the effect such a machine would have on society and politics. The plot is simple, a purely evil Kerak Dictator has his assistant infuriate people so that they initiate duels and then somehow (contradictory to the supposed nature of the machine) actually kills them in the imaginary world so that he can gain political advantage and take over neighboring systems. The novel should have ended here. Except....(When the Dueling machine fills in whatever science fiction gimmick he can imagine)Ben Bova decides that 69 pages is not long enough for a novel and embarks on a great mindless adventure using the dregs of Sci-Fi's rehashed ideas. Dueling in cool worlds with unusual weapons is not enough, the machine also has to be a teleporter (since Kerak is initially defeated he has to have another nefarious scheme up his sleeve) etc. The influence of the machine on society is not longer important but rather all the problems that science fiction plots routinely have to deal with (extreme distances between planets, telepathy, etc) are all solved with the dueling machine. The ending is anti-climatic, although Bova does throw in some wacky-sentence structure mind melding, for kick.Overall, this is a fun read. While some parts are laughable, others are positively mind tickling and genuinely entertaining.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. When surrounded by giants.. By Lloyd A. Mcdaniel Bova comes from out of the past at us like a bright light on a fast moving train. He worked around, beside, with and knew Asimov, RAH, Campbell, and [fill-in-your favorite author here]... Giants all of them, and Bova a work-a-day damn fine writer.In a crowd like THAT even the best and brightest can be unappreciated. THE DUELING MACHINE was one of the early book I cut my S-F teeth on that WASN'T one of the names above and it has stayed with me to this very day. Why? because the people in it, yes I said PEOPLE, had faces and hearts and troubles beyond the framistat finagling in in the raygun fight.. Like RAH you got a sense that these were people you'd like to know and even the bad guys were interesting.Glad to see it back in print even if briefly. Like somebody once said 'when surrounded by giants it pays to be a little quiet.. and carry a razor sharp ax.'.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My Favorite Book Ever By Joisiee The Dueling Machine is not "Great Literature" by any means, but it's probably the book that turned me on to SF, specifically the kind that offers hope for humanity. I first read it as a young teen some thirty years ago, and have come back to it many times over they years. More than once I have given my personal copy to a friend, so I am glad to see this title being resurrected by Reanimus Press. It's archetypal characters - the calculating villain, the likeable fool with so much potential, the avuncular professor - are memorable and relatable. Every time I re-read it, I feel like I am visiting with old friends.It's a classic Cold War spy story set in the distant future. Evil Dictator Kanus of the oppressive Kerak Empire plots to take over the free and prosperous Acquataine Cluster using the Dueling Machine, a device in which two disputants can settle their differences without bloodshed, by 'killing' each other in any virtual envirnoment they can imagine. His secret weapon? A highly skilled assassin, Major Par Odal, who has a unique ability to cheat, even in the closed environment of the Dueling Machine, and kill his opponents for real.As Odal systematically assassinates the leaders of the Acquataine Cluster, Professor Leoh, the inventor of the Dueling Machine, and the bungling Star Watch Junior Lieutenant Hector Hector (not a typo, Hector is his first and his last name), work to discover Odal's secret and stop the Dueling Machine from being used as a murder weapon ever again. Along the way there is romance, a startling discovery or two, anguish, angst, a personal turning point, and more than one happy ending.
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