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Novels # 31: From the Planet of Brooklyn in New York Control


From Brooklyn to Planet Control ( The Identity Plunderers ) is an unusual novel that mixes science fiction to detective novels about two in one, with the literary challenge to unite all in a plausible way.
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Urania 980 series is the first work of Isidore Haiblum , written in 1984, the year of the first Terminator , a coincidence that, read the book, you may also define non-random.
Haiblum shows a good familiarity in the management of science fiction themes such as planets ruled by humanoids, from human brain extract ("nulls"), cyborg, a man and a she escaped from a prison planet and everything else belongs to the tradition of this series of Mondadori.
The land part of the story, where the Ross Block reporter investigating a murder, it is more convincing, especially in New York and rhythm elements.
journalist living and working nella Manhattan degli anni ‘80, quando New York si stava pian piano rifacendo il look dopo la parentesi "sporca, cattiva e pericolosa" dei '70: “La baciò sul naso, si alzò, andò alla finestra. Quattro piani più sotto c’erano West Broadway e Soho, il quartiere degli artisti di Manhattan Bassa. Bar ben messi, ristoranti non ordinari, qualche boutique chic e molti portici che si facevano concorrenza per attirare l’attenzione” .
E anche Brooklyn, il luogo d’origine del protagonista, dove torna per indagare dopo molti anni, mostra il cambiamento in corso: “La Brooklyn che lui conosceva non c’era più. Niente casamenti anneriti che si affollavano on sidewalks. No clothes hanging to dry in the courtyards. Instead, there were everywhere, some tall buildings, yellow brick, much like the boxes: buildings of apartments for lower middle class. And the flyover was gone. "
The chapters alternate between setting strict galactic and subway, another with a good amount of action that keeps up the pace of the story. The writer tries to unsettle the reader with sudden gear shifts between dream, reality, memory loss and finds up to a final, not without some difficulty and repeated narrative twists, reconnect everything.
From the Planet of Brooklyn control remains an interesting experiment, a sort of fantapulpdetective memorable you who have not read with curiosity.
From Brooklyn to Planet Control , Mondadori Urania No 980, 1984