Books: Clearing The Deck, Part III, Unfinished Tales

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Rich dilettante Van Weyden is rescued from a shipwreck by Wolf Larsen and press-ganged into service. Larsen is a violent idiot who thinks he's smart because he's read a few books. He has to be violent, because he can't convince anybody of anything through reason, that's for sure. He may have made an interesting character study 120 years ago, but now he's a very dull, very common type. Unfinished.

Spaced Out (Three Novels Of Tomorrow) by Judith Merril and C.M. Kornbluth

I'm afraid I just found these boring. In Gunner Cade the protagonist never knows what's going on, bleh. Shadow On The Hearth was too depressing. I did finish Outpost Mars, which is a relatively interesting story of a Martian colony, but I can't hugely recommend it.

The Lavalite World by Philip José Farmer

Fifth in his World Of Tiers series, third to not actually take place on the Tiered World itself, and second to deal more with 1970s social issues than interdimensional adventure. Suffice to say, Farmer probably should have actually talked to some black people before and after writing this book. Unfinished.