A Good Thing Goin’
The Byworlder
By Poul Anderson
3 Dec, 2023
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Poul Anderson’s 1971 The Byworlder is a stand-alone near-future science fiction novel.
Earth is inching toward global peace and prosperity. Military-industrial complexes are hobbled by governmental fears of thermonuclear doom. Automation accelerates production of necessities and luxuries. These conditions are sufficient to allow the formation of what might have, in another decade, been called a counter-culture. So-called Byworlders are rejecting buttoned-down social conformity (which they dub Ortho) in favor of less conventional lifestyles.
Enter a visitor from Sigma Draconis.
