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All Judgment Fled
James White
190 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1968
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James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. He became a fan of science fiction in 1941 and co-wrote two fan magazines, from 1948 to 1953 and 1952 to 1965. Encouraged by other fans, White began publishing short stories in 1953, and his first novel was published in 1957. His best-known novels were the twelve of the Sector General series, the first published in 1962 and the last after his death. White also published nine other novels, two of which were nominated for major awards, unsuccessfully.
White abhorred violence, and medical and other emergencies were the sources of dramatic tension in his stories. The "Sector General" series is regarded as defining the genre of medical science fiction, and as introducing a memorable crew of aliens. Although missing winning the most prestigious honours four times, White gained other awards for specific works and for contributions to science fiction. He was also Guest-of-Honour of several conventions.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. He became a fan of science fiction in 1941 and co-wrote two fan magazines, from 1948 to 1953 and 1952 to 1965. Encouraged by other fans, White began publishing short stories in 1953, and his first novel was published in 1957. His best-known novels were the twelve of the Sector General series, the first published in 1962 and the last after his death. White also published nine other novels, two of which were nominated for major awards, unsuccessfully.
White abhorred violence, and medical and other emergencies were the sources of dramatic tension in his stories. The "Sector General" series is regarded as defining the genre of medical science fiction, and as introducing a memorable crew of aliens. Although missing winning the most prestigious honours four times, White gained other awards for specific works and for contributions to science fiction. He was also Guest-of-Honour of several conventions.
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January 4, 2019
An unidentified object enters the solar system and an exploration team is sent to investigate. No this isn’t Rendezvous with Rama… In fact, All Judgement Fled predates Rama with some three years or so. Where Arthur C. Clarke’s novel is pretty much the genre-defining big-dumb-object, or artifact, story, this is a novel about first contact. Or is it? All Judgement Fled raises a number of pretty interesting moral issues, even though it seems hesitant to deal with them directly, leaving some conclusion-drawing to the reader. It has a definite old school feel about it, which I liked, but the psychological portions were a bit heavy handed at times. Other than that, it’s actually a pretty short novel and time well spent if you like this kind of thing. Yes, the object is a space-ship. And no, that is not a spoiler, as this is made abundantly clear on the first page and the back cover. Once the actual exploration of the alien vessel gets underway, the plot hits some more familiar buttons (Alien, for one thing, comes to mind – although, again, this book predates Alien as well) and things get pretty tense. The tension generated by the story is ambiguous, and you’ll understand it if you read it - that is spoiler territory, so explanations are out. As for me, I quite enjoyed it.
December 31, 2023
First contact stories are among the most iconic in the science fiction genre. Their origins can be traced as far back as H. G. Wells’s classic 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, in which a group of aliens arrive on Earth and announce their intentions by incinerating the party of English worthies who attempt to greet them in peace. Since that time, the number of stories about such encounters has only grown, reflecting both their popularity and the opportunities they provide for authors to explore various themes within them.
Among the best of the type is James White’s 1969 novel. In it, a team of astronauts is sent into space to investigate an alien vessel that has taken up orbit near Mars. It is a scenario that opens up a variety of topics for possible exploration, and the one that White chooses is that of the impact of such a mission on the astronauts themselves. Though all six are capable individuals, the circumstances of their mission – crammed tightly into two spaceships, with little opportunity for privacy – only adds to the stress experienced by the men as they prepare for a momentous encounter with the entire world watching them.
This stress only increases once the men reach the vessel. White’s conceptualization of the scenario is an interesting one, but many of his ideas lack the level of imagination that a writer today might apply to them. Nor does it help that, for all the challenges they face, nearly all of the assumptions and guesses the men make about the situation facing them are borne out over the course of the novel. But then these elements are secondary to White’s focus, which is on how the long-term strain of the first contact effects the men involved. That each responds in a different fashion adds to the verisimilitude of the story, as we see a range of reactions to the situation they face collectively.
It is one that is not helped by the people at home second-guessing them. Due to the general accessibility of the crew’s transmissions and the significance of their mission, virtually the entire world monitors their reports and judges what they do. The global response, in turn, is filtered through the mission’s control center, which attempts to micromanage the crew through a mix of psychological manipulation and none-too-subtle threats. This element of White’s novel is one that is too often lacking from other stories of the type, yet I found it possessed a realism that makes its absence from similar works all too glaring.
The response of the men points to another and more subtle theme of White’s story, which is the role of leadership in high-pressure situations. This is best demonstrated by the novel’s main protagonist, a psychologist who is second-in-command of the mission. Over the course of the mission, he is placed in numerous challenging situations where he is forced to not just evaluate options and make decisions, but to cope with their consequences. While this aspect of the story can often be overshadowed by the overall plot, it not only enriches the overall plot but adds to its value for the reader. For while elements of it might feel dated today, like the best works of science fiction it speaks to aspects of ourselves that are as relevant now as they were when the book was originally published over a half-century ago. For anyone seeking a great first contact novel, this is one well worth seeking out.
Among the best of the type is James White’s 1969 novel. In it, a team of astronauts is sent into space to investigate an alien vessel that has taken up orbit near Mars. It is a scenario that opens up a variety of topics for possible exploration, and the one that White chooses is that of the impact of such a mission on the astronauts themselves. Though all six are capable individuals, the circumstances of their mission – crammed tightly into two spaceships, with little opportunity for privacy – only adds to the stress experienced by the men as they prepare for a momentous encounter with the entire world watching them.
This stress only increases once the men reach the vessel. White’s conceptualization of the scenario is an interesting one, but many of his ideas lack the level of imagination that a writer today might apply to them. Nor does it help that, for all the challenges they face, nearly all of the assumptions and guesses the men make about the situation facing them are borne out over the course of the novel. But then these elements are secondary to White’s focus, which is on how the long-term strain of the first contact effects the men involved. That each responds in a different fashion adds to the verisimilitude of the story, as we see a range of reactions to the situation they face collectively.
It is one that is not helped by the people at home second-guessing them. Due to the general accessibility of the crew’s transmissions and the significance of their mission, virtually the entire world monitors their reports and judges what they do. The global response, in turn, is filtered through the mission’s control center, which attempts to micromanage the crew through a mix of psychological manipulation and none-too-subtle threats. This element of White’s novel is one that is too often lacking from other stories of the type, yet I found it possessed a realism that makes its absence from similar works all too glaring.
The response of the men points to another and more subtle theme of White’s story, which is the role of leadership in high-pressure situations. This is best demonstrated by the novel’s main protagonist, a psychologist who is second-in-command of the mission. Over the course of the mission, he is placed in numerous challenging situations where he is forced to not just evaluate options and make decisions, but to cope with their consequences. While this aspect of the story can often be overshadowed by the overall plot, it not only enriches the overall plot but adds to its value for the reader. For while elements of it might feel dated today, like the best works of science fiction it speaks to aspects of ourselves that are as relevant now as they were when the book was originally published over a half-century ago. For anyone seeking a great first contact novel, this is one well worth seeking out.
December 7, 2020
The story of how I came to read this author is a good one - I live in his house!
James White died in 1999 and when I moved into this house some of the older residents on the street told me another writer used to live here, but they couldn't remember his name. I didn't think much of it - I thought he was maybe a journalist or local poet or something. It wasn't until recently I found out he was James White and he was a fairly well-known sci-fi author who wrote over twenty novels. So I HAD to take a look.
The story is about a huge ship arriving in orbit around Mars. The humans see this and decide to send a couple of ships to check it out. It's an interesting premise, but when they get there we get little more than a chase and kill story. There are some vicious aliens on board and our astronauts pick them off one-by-one. In short, very little happens. The biggest stumbling block I had with the book was there was no central character. Earth sends six astronauts to establish first contact/ assess any threat, and if we saw the whole mission through one person's eyes I think I would've connected better. But it doesn't. It flips between all six characters and so I didn't really feel a connection with any of them.
I tried to start with a standalone book, just to get an idea of the writing, but I also know this author is best known for his Sector General series, about a space hospital. I think there are a dozen of them. I may start that series and see how I get on. Even if I didn't really love this book, it's still cool to know it was written in my house along with dozens of others.
James White died in 1999 and when I moved into this house some of the older residents on the street told me another writer used to live here, but they couldn't remember his name. I didn't think much of it - I thought he was maybe a journalist or local poet or something. It wasn't until recently I found out he was James White and he was a fairly well-known sci-fi author who wrote over twenty novels. So I HAD to take a look.
The story is about a huge ship arriving in orbit around Mars. The humans see this and decide to send a couple of ships to check it out. It's an interesting premise, but when they get there we get little more than a chase and kill story. There are some vicious aliens on board and our astronauts pick them off one-by-one. In short, very little happens. The biggest stumbling block I had with the book was there was no central character. Earth sends six astronauts to establish first contact/ assess any threat, and if we saw the whole mission through one person's eyes I think I would've connected better. But it doesn't. It flips between all six characters and so I didn't really feel a connection with any of them.
I tried to start with a standalone book, just to get an idea of the writing, but I also know this author is best known for his Sector General series, about a space hospital. I think there are a dozen of them. I may start that series and see how I get on. Even if I didn't really love this book, it's still cool to know it was written in my house along with dozens of others.
December 26, 2023
Il titolo pulp, ben diverso dall’originale “All judgment fled”, e accompagnato da una sanguigna copertina, rischia secondo me di far trascurare un eccellente romanzo di un autore che condivide molte cose con Bob Shaw: l’origine nordirlandese, un periodo in Nord America, il non aver mai ottenuto uno dei massimi premi della fantascienza, ma soprattutto l’essere uno dei narratori più affidabili degli anni 60/70, un artigiano che sa sempre creare una storia affascinante: peccato che oggi si ricordi appena la serie del “Settore generale” (nell’originale formata da 12 uscite!), e nel principale motore di ricerca sotto il suo nome compaia un giocatore di football..
Tornando a questo romanzo, comunque, che ricordo come uno dei preferiti da ragazzo, si tratta di un’enigmatica storia di “primo contatto”, piuttosto avanti con i tempi. Il colto paragone con il “Benito Cereno” di Melville, fatto da Fruttero e Lucentini in quarta di copertina, è intrigante; ma il fascino di questo romanzo me lo hanno chiarito alcune recensioni in Goodreads: primo, inaugura il tema del “Big Dumb Object”, il Grande Oggetto Muto che dal nulla appare in mezzo al sistema solare con il suo carico di mistero, anticipando di alcuni anni “Incontro con Rama” (che alcuni trovano addirittura inferiore!); secondo, il buon “dottor” White anticipa anche alcune tematiche di iconoclasti come Malzberg, mostrando astronauti tutt’altro che eroici ma in preda a paranoie e nevrosi paralizzanti.
Completa il numero un eccellente articolo di Asimov sui moti lunari: chi avesse dubbi sul perché la luna ci mostri (quasi!) sempre la stessa faccia, o cosa sia la sua “librazione”, e altro ancora, troverà nel Buon Dottore le risposte.
Tornando a questo romanzo, comunque, che ricordo come uno dei preferiti da ragazzo, si tratta di un’enigmatica storia di “primo contatto”, piuttosto avanti con i tempi. Il colto paragone con il “Benito Cereno” di Melville, fatto da Fruttero e Lucentini in quarta di copertina, è intrigante; ma il fascino di questo romanzo me lo hanno chiarito alcune recensioni in Goodreads: primo, inaugura il tema del “Big Dumb Object”, il Grande Oggetto Muto che dal nulla appare in mezzo al sistema solare con il suo carico di mistero, anticipando di alcuni anni “Incontro con Rama” (che alcuni trovano addirittura inferiore!); secondo, il buon “dottor” White anticipa anche alcune tematiche di iconoclasti come Malzberg, mostrando astronauti tutt’altro che eroici ma in preda a paranoie e nevrosi paralizzanti.
Completa il numero un eccellente articolo di Asimov sui moti lunari: chi avesse dubbi sul perché la luna ci mostri (quasi!) sempre la stessa faccia, o cosa sia la sua “librazione”, e altro ancora, troverà nel Buon Dottore le risposte.
November 25, 2023
Worst First Contact ever!
I learned about this 1960s SF book on Goodreads; someone recommended it in a thread somewhere and it caught my fancy. I’ve seen it compared to Rendezvous with Rama — it’s much more interesting IMO.
Humans notice something new out orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. They re-program the Jupiter probe to approach it, and scans sent back show that it is a huge alien spacecraft. And so the Prometheus mission sends out two three-men crews to the ship, to investigate and possibly make contact with it.
1. First third: astronauts and scientists in their small ships, traveling out beyond Mars. Conversation, claustrophobia, stress.
2. Second third: arrival and investigation. Without much time at all spent on investigation or trying to communicate, the crew attempts to open the airlock and board the ship. At one point I thought this was the inspiration for the first Alien movie, but it went in a different direction. Various theories on the aliens.
3. Last third:
This is SciFi/Horror, but definitely pre-New Wave, 1970s, feminism, the modern SF era. All the astronauts/scientists are American men… although actually I prefer that to one of the crew being a woman with a PhD. in anthropology, and then instead of helping with the alien mission she degenerates into talking about clothes and love interest (like The Mote in God's Eye). One psychologist back on Earth is a woman who they think is “disturbingly female.” Eventually they start calling her Tokyo Rose, HA.
Another element from that period, I think… psychology or therapy was, not new, but entering mainstream consciousness? So that people discussed it more as pop psychology, trying to be serious but sounding pretty naive to our ears.
A realistic part of the story, especially given our current challenges with social media, fast news cycles and misinformation: communications from the Prometheus crew were live-streamed to all of Earth. So millions of people back at home were following the broadcasts and expressing opinions on the astronauts’ behavior: some militaristic and gung-ho, some outraged about the killing of aliens. The global PR furor sometimes influenced the instructions from Mission Control. They tried to control the situation by using psychological manipulation.
What caused the mission descend into such madness? The exact answers are unclear… xenophobia, legitimate self-defense, human failures (their judgement fled), madness, inability to cope with the isolation. I would have liked a more straightforward answer — was it one or combination of those or is the whole debacle open to interpretation — and to know whether or not the men were vindicated.
If you like this (or the sound of it, but want to go for something a little better), check out Marathon and Rendezvous by D. Alexander Smith.
Characters:
Prometheus One:
Colonel Morrison - commander.
Major Drew
Hollis - physicist. Shy. Nuclear power for spaceships.
Prometheus Two:
Berryman - command pilot.
Major Walters
McCullough - doctor, scientist. Had been meaning to study lifeforms in weightlessness. Studied psychology and behavior of worms.
I learned about this 1960s SF book on Goodreads; someone recommended it in a thread somewhere and it caught my fancy. I’ve seen it compared to Rendezvous with Rama — it’s much more interesting IMO.
Humans notice something new out orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. They re-program the Jupiter probe to approach it, and scans sent back show that it is a huge alien spacecraft. And so the Prometheus mission sends out two three-men crews to the ship, to investigate and possibly make contact with it.
1. First third: astronauts and scientists in their small ships, traveling out beyond Mars. Conversation, claustrophobia, stress.
2. Second third: arrival and investigation. Without much time at all spent on investigation or trying to communicate, the crew attempts to open the airlock and board the ship. At one point I thought this was the inspiration for the first Alien movie, but it went in a different direction. Various theories on the aliens.
3. Last third:
This is SciFi/Horror, but definitely pre-New Wave, 1970s, feminism, the modern SF era. All the astronauts/scientists are American men… although actually I prefer that to one of the crew being a woman with a PhD. in anthropology, and then instead of helping with the alien mission she degenerates into talking about clothes and love interest (like The Mote in God's Eye). One psychologist back on Earth is a woman who they think is “disturbingly female.” Eventually they start calling her Tokyo Rose, HA.
Another element from that period, I think… psychology or therapy was, not new, but entering mainstream consciousness? So that people discussed it more as pop psychology, trying to be serious but sounding pretty naive to our ears.
A realistic part of the story, especially given our current challenges with social media, fast news cycles and misinformation: communications from the Prometheus crew were live-streamed to all of Earth. So millions of people back at home were following the broadcasts and expressing opinions on the astronauts’ behavior: some militaristic and gung-ho, some outraged about the killing of aliens. The global PR furor sometimes influenced the instructions from Mission Control. They tried to control the situation by using psychological manipulation.
What caused the mission descend into such madness? The exact answers are unclear… xenophobia, legitimate self-defense, human failures (their judgement fled), madness, inability to cope with the isolation. I would have liked a more straightforward answer — was it one or combination of those or is the whole debacle open to interpretation — and to know whether or not the men were vindicated.
If you like this (or the sound of it, but want to go for something a little better), check out Marathon and Rendezvous by D. Alexander Smith.
Characters:
Prometheus One:
Colonel Morrison - commander.
Major Drew
Hollis - physicist. Shy. Nuclear power for spaceships.
Prometheus Two:
Berryman - command pilot.
Major Walters
McCullough - doctor, scientist. Had been meaning to study lifeforms in weightlessness. Studied psychology and behavior of worms.
January 8, 2019
Maybe 3.5 stars.
Suppose astronomers spot a large alien spaceship orbiting the Sun beyond Mars. Earth sends two Apollo-like spacecraft to investigate. There's no response to efforts to communicate, no sign of ship damage, and no signs of defense, aggression or other intelligent activity. The human crew enter by an airlock. Inside, they find several alien species, one of which has only left a dead body. The observed species behave like animals. An aggressive type kills a couple of humans as well as alien species. Earth command thinks the aggressive species may be crew members protecting their engines and other crucial tech. The astronauts think these are something like lab animals that got loose and either killed the crew of scared them into hiding.
What do you do?
The astronauts organize to kill the aggressive species while exploring the ship to gain knowledge for Earth. Personally, I was uncomfortable with this. Even if they weren't killing an aggressive species, to me, it seemed different to be treating the ship almost as if it was their own when neither Earth nor the astronaut were convinced it's a derelict. While the astronauts were curious whether there was an intelligent alien on the ship and would have been interested to meet one, that wasn't the primary purpose of their explorations. So, what constitutes a "derelict?" If you found a house in the woods and thought it may be abandoned, and it's full of unfamiliar, dangerous animals, should you go in, trap / kill the animals, just knock on the door and see if anyone answers, or what?
Suppose astronomers spot a large alien spaceship orbiting the Sun beyond Mars. Earth sends two Apollo-like spacecraft to investigate. There's no response to efforts to communicate, no sign of ship damage, and no signs of defense, aggression or other intelligent activity. The human crew enter by an airlock. Inside, they find several alien species, one of which has only left a dead body. The observed species behave like animals. An aggressive type kills a couple of humans as well as alien species. Earth command thinks the aggressive species may be crew members protecting their engines and other crucial tech. The astronauts think these are something like lab animals that got loose and either killed the crew of scared them into hiding.
What do you do?
The astronauts organize to kill the aggressive species while exploring the ship to gain knowledge for Earth. Personally, I was uncomfortable with this. Even if they weren't killing an aggressive species, to me, it seemed different to be treating the ship almost as if it was their own when neither Earth nor the astronaut were convinced it's a derelict. While the astronauts were curious whether there was an intelligent alien on the ship and would have been interested to meet one, that wasn't the primary purpose of their explorations. So, what constitutes a "derelict?" If you found a house in the woods and thought it may be abandoned, and it's full of unfamiliar, dangerous animals, should you go in, trap / kill the animals, just knock on the door and see if anyone answers, or what?
July 14, 2020
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"James White’s All Judgement Fled (1967) is easily the most inventive 60s/70s “Big Dumb Object” novels I have encountered. Far more complex than Clarke’s straight-laced so-called masterpiece Rendezvous with Rama (1973) or the fascinating veneer (and nothing more) of Larry Niven’s bland Ringworld (1970). Notice that White’s novel predates both better known behemoths of this common subgenre.
Years ago I read and enjoyed James White’s The Watch Below (1966) but for whatever reason I did not read more of his novels. All Judgement Fled (1968) is even [...]"
"James White’s All Judgement Fled (1967) is easily the most inventive 60s/70s “Big Dumb Object” novels I have encountered. Far more complex than Clarke’s straight-laced so-called masterpiece Rendezvous with Rama (1973) or the fascinating veneer (and nothing more) of Larry Niven’s bland Ringworld (1970). Notice that White’s novel predates both better known behemoths of this common subgenre.
Years ago I read and enjoyed James White’s The Watch Below (1966) but for whatever reason I did not read more of his novels. All Judgement Fled (1968) is even [...]"
May 23, 2015
Mostly an action movie sort of story, with the protagonists stranded on board an alien ship being mobbed by killer monsters. But with some nice twists on the genre that made it feel fresher than that one-line description would otherwise make it. For one, although the protagonists are physically isolated (realistic space travel is used so it takes a lot of time and effort to fly around out there) they are in radio contact with authorities on Earth the whole time. Didn't play a huge role but gave some interesting ambiance to the story.
February 9, 2016
James White is a new author to me and what a relief to discover psychological intricacy that does not relie on glaringly dated guesses at technological evolution. This is a novel about having the convictions to ignore authority under extreme duress, and at that it succeeds brilliantly for a novel written in 1968. I have started reading his hospital novels with pleasure. My only minor criticism is that hardly a word is wasred so if he tells you a seemingly irrelevant small detail you are noting it down, ready to tie it back in later. A few loose ends would be nice.
September 16, 2020
The first half was great. The second half was missing a twist or two to keep it interesting. Though reading this today likely suffers since so much of the originality has decayed into worn genre tropes. Can definitely see the influences on Alien and Rama.
January 7, 2019
...there was relayed back to Earth a low-definition picture of the vessel which orbited silently and, some thought, implacably, like some tremendous battleship cruising off the coast of a tiny, backwards island. (...) two small, sophisticated, dugout canoes were hastily modified and readied for launching.
An intriguing and clever hard-sci-fi take on the first-contact story. A giant interstellar spaceship appears outside Mars, NASA dispatches two three-person crews to intercept it and, if possible, make contact. White averts the idea of god-like aliens very nicely, lets political considerations play out on several levels, and even if he's a bit overly fond of pop psychology his character work is nice too. The only problem is that his prose simply doesn't live up to it. There's never any time for the story to breathe, never any pauses or intense passages, just one long march of details across the page.
An intriguing and clever hard-sci-fi take on the first-contact story. A giant interstellar spaceship appears outside Mars, NASA dispatches two three-person crews to intercept it and, if possible, make contact. White averts the idea of god-like aliens very nicely, lets political considerations play out on several levels, and even if he's a bit overly fond of pop psychology his character work is nice too. The only problem is that his prose simply doesn't live up to it. There's never any time for the story to breathe, never any pauses or intense passages, just one long march of details across the page.
September 7, 2024
A first contact science-fiction novel all the way back from 1967. Not as good or as compelling as James Cambias's "A Darkling Sea" from 2014, but surprisingly good nonetheless and holding extremely well, mainly (there are a few details such as the astronauts being all male, but they don't distract much).
The aliens are actually remarkably achieved, and the stress and adventure are mostly brilliantly pulled off, but the strength of the book is the human politics, including a range of evolving objectives being leveraged from an almost impossible to conceive -- given serious restrains, specifically of planetary resource management and limited state-of-the-art technologies -- mission to the stars to solve the mystery of what can only be an extraterrestrial (in the book, "e-t") vessel spotted in the heart of the solar system. Human nature is shown to be the proverbial bitch, but also people in a hot spot totally, as in definitely, out of their element, are also shown to be resourceful and managing to get things done against all odds and out of control alien life forms!
All in all, adult stuff, lots of fun, and quite satisfying. I wouldn't say that this is science-fiction at its peak, but it really is a good manifestation of strengths of the genre.
It doesn't hurt at all that it is very well written:
"At best your remarks, if indeed you meant them, are totally unstatesmanlike; at worst, criminally irresponsible."
"Berryman threaded the launching harness onto the first section of pipe and, while Walters completed the erection, the command pilot harnessed McCullough to the stupid contraption."
"Hollis had been unable to ascertain whether the favor had been sordid or sublime, whether it involved white slavery, the black market, or just saving the colonel's life."
"The awful black immensity of space," said Walters sourly during one of the rare radio silences. "The vast and aching loneliness between the stars, the unutterable, soul-destroying boredom. Dammit, they won't even give us ten minutes peace and quiet to feel bored in."
"This metal plating beneath his feet had been shaped and processed from ore dug out of the earth, but not the Earth. From his position by the airlock the hull looked so enormous that he seemed almost to be standing on a metallic planet complete with a range of beautiful transparent hills. The sun was shining through one of the blister hills, distorted by refraction into a gaudy smear which threw blurred highlights off whatever it was that the blister contained. And this whole vast fabrication was the product of a design staff and engineers who were not of Earth. At no stage in its construction had the people from McDonnell or BAC had a single thing to do with it."
"Finally they were ready to leave. The discarded suit twisted slowly, like some shredded, dismembered corpse, in the mist which was growing visibly in the area of the leak. McCullough wondered what the aliens would make of it, what they would infer and deduce regarding the human race. The thought made him look toward the transparent panel in the door."
"When they were giving us all those lectures, Doctor," said Walters, displaying his genius for converting the sublime into the ridiculous, "they forgot Burglary. How does one pick an airlock?"
"(...) said McCullough, preparing to slide imperceptibly from questionable, rule-of-thumb psychology into outright fiction (...)"
"For the first few seconds McCullough's feeling was one of outrage rather than fear. This was going too far, he thought; being marooned on the Ship, running short of water, under nearly constant attack by aliens, the deaths of Colonel Morrison and Drew. This was piling on the agony and taking misfortune to ridiculous extremes. The Ship couldn't be leaving!"
No, it never hurts when one is served one's adventure in a seemingly unassuming book, with superior, if not superlative, writing... specially when nobody seems to notice or mention this small detail!
Regarding human politics, specifically the CYA department:
"The original idea in making every phase of the project open to the public had been to arouse interest in space flight generally and to gain the support of the voters for the enormous cost of the hardware -- in short, a large-scale P.R. job. It was a noble project which had, unfortunately, to be paid for by people who were not all noble. But now Prometheus had gone sour, its Ship-side personnel seemed to be devolving into vicious and sadistic killers while back at home nobility was breaking out in some of the most unlikely places."
"Very well, sir," said McCullough. "Our problem, or rather your problem, is this. We are being told what to do by people who do not know all the facts, and who don't want to be told them because of the effect the telling might have on public opinion. Their instructions to us, if you could call them instructions, are so general in nature and so hedged around with qualifiers and warnings that they don't really seem to mean anything. We need help. Not only are we not getting it, we are being ordered not to ask for it!"
"There is nothing original about this course," McCullough went on. "It is a clear case of your eyes and your hands scandalizing you, and you then quote the highest possible Authority regarding your subsequent action in the matter. If your right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out. If your right hand scandalize thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, and so on. But if you were thinking straight, you would realize that this is not a true analogy."
"We are the experts in this particular situation. It is ridiculous to expect us to obey people who know less about it than we do -- people who, if they were to regain complete control over us, are under so much pressure from so many different directions that they are incapable of giving proper orders anyway."
"I, personally, would like corroboration of my findings in the Two autopsy," McCullough went on, anger gradually replacing the fear in his voice. "Moral support, if you like, for a theory and a decision I am too much a coward to take alone. Instead of giving me the necessary support, Brady nearly had a fit and would not let me finish explaining the situation! I don't know what has happened to them back there. They act as if they are having an emergency instead of us!"
"And there is a really uncomfortable idea, thought McCullough, then went on quickly, "These orders are harsh, inflexible and ill-considered. In a short time they will, like the earlier ones, be amended and qualified. We'll still be forbidden to kill Twos -- unless circumstances make it absolutely necessary. Exploration will be allowed -- within certain limits which will not be clearly defined. It will be suggested that we obtain further data on the hyperdrive generators -- if this can be done without upsetting the aliens, or without running too great a risk of upsetting the aliens. Gradually the orders will contain so many qualifiers we will be back in square one, but with our self-confidence reduced and our tempers drastically shortened."
"Cynically, McCullough went on, "Instead of being heroes it seems we are to become scapegoats -- at least, that is the way it looks to me. But this means that we will have to be allowed some freedom of action, otherwise they would not be able to blame us for everything that is happening . . . (...) "In other words," said Drew grimly, "if we can't please anyone we can at least try to please ourselves."
On being human (and alien...):
"And remember, this is not a game. If anyone feels like treating it as one they should remind themselves that the nearest hospital is sixty million miles away and the ambulance service is bad . . ."
"When the Two was dead, the furry animal did not try to eat it, but instead undulated over to the mesh. Possibly it was a vegetarian."
"McCullough tried to think of other things while the slaughter proceeded."
"McCullough laughed. He said, "Cynicism is a very good defense. Throw in a little sympathy for the enemy -- Brady, that is, not the Twos -- while a good, hefty shot of megalomania might help as well. You start by doubting everything they tell you and questioning all their motives, at the same time trying to appreciate the general's position, but not to the extent that you fail to realize the true importance of the part we have to play in all this. So you doubt Brady, you feel sorry for him and, in your quiet, respectful fashion, you also feel superior to him. Get the idea?"
"Of late," said Walters doubtfully, "I have become much less quiet and respectful."
"His conscience seemed to be developing thick and widespread calluses. He wondered how long it would be before he became completely decivilized."
"But then McCullough realized that he was beginning to sound like General Brady and that the three men were expecting compliments instead of criticism, so he added gravely that the cumulative effect of the toxins would probably take the form of a long, wasting, ultimately fatal disease indistinguishable from old age."
"The times they each woke up struggling and screaming did not count, of course, because they all did that."
"For it was not only their personal friends at Prometheus who had betrayed and rejected them, it was their whole lousy race!"
To finish, a rounding of a few more nice turns of phrase:
"For the analysis of the air sample taken in the corridor had shown that the alien atmosphere was not harmful to human beings and was, in fact, much less toxic than the air of an average city."
"There was no shame attached to admitting that one was a coward, he thought cynically, just as long as one did not prove it."
"(...) and McCullough, who was a difficult and unsatisfactory character for children to portray, moved around doing nothing, apparently, but change his mind."
The aliens are actually remarkably achieved, and the stress and adventure are mostly brilliantly pulled off, but the strength of the book is the human politics, including a range of evolving objectives being leveraged from an almost impossible to conceive -- given serious restrains, specifically of planetary resource management and limited state-of-the-art technologies -- mission to the stars to solve the mystery of what can only be an extraterrestrial (in the book, "e-t") vessel spotted in the heart of the solar system. Human nature is shown to be the proverbial bitch, but also people in a hot spot totally, as in definitely, out of their element, are also shown to be resourceful and managing to get things done against all odds and out of control alien life forms!
All in all, adult stuff, lots of fun, and quite satisfying. I wouldn't say that this is science-fiction at its peak, but it really is a good manifestation of strengths of the genre.
It doesn't hurt at all that it is very well written:
"At best your remarks, if indeed you meant them, are totally unstatesmanlike; at worst, criminally irresponsible."
"Berryman threaded the launching harness onto the first section of pipe and, while Walters completed the erection, the command pilot harnessed McCullough to the stupid contraption."
"Hollis had been unable to ascertain whether the favor had been sordid or sublime, whether it involved white slavery, the black market, or just saving the colonel's life."
"The awful black immensity of space," said Walters sourly during one of the rare radio silences. "The vast and aching loneliness between the stars, the unutterable, soul-destroying boredom. Dammit, they won't even give us ten minutes peace and quiet to feel bored in."
"This metal plating beneath his feet had been shaped and processed from ore dug out of the earth, but not the Earth. From his position by the airlock the hull looked so enormous that he seemed almost to be standing on a metallic planet complete with a range of beautiful transparent hills. The sun was shining through one of the blister hills, distorted by refraction into a gaudy smear which threw blurred highlights off whatever it was that the blister contained. And this whole vast fabrication was the product of a design staff and engineers who were not of Earth. At no stage in its construction had the people from McDonnell or BAC had a single thing to do with it."
"Finally they were ready to leave. The discarded suit twisted slowly, like some shredded, dismembered corpse, in the mist which was growing visibly in the area of the leak. McCullough wondered what the aliens would make of it, what they would infer and deduce regarding the human race. The thought made him look toward the transparent panel in the door."
"When they were giving us all those lectures, Doctor," said Walters, displaying his genius for converting the sublime into the ridiculous, "they forgot Burglary. How does one pick an airlock?"
"(...) said McCullough, preparing to slide imperceptibly from questionable, rule-of-thumb psychology into outright fiction (...)"
"For the first few seconds McCullough's feeling was one of outrage rather than fear. This was going too far, he thought; being marooned on the Ship, running short of water, under nearly constant attack by aliens, the deaths of Colonel Morrison and Drew. This was piling on the agony and taking misfortune to ridiculous extremes. The Ship couldn't be leaving!"
No, it never hurts when one is served one's adventure in a seemingly unassuming book, with superior, if not superlative, writing... specially when nobody seems to notice or mention this small detail!
Regarding human politics, specifically the CYA department:
"The original idea in making every phase of the project open to the public had been to arouse interest in space flight generally and to gain the support of the voters for the enormous cost of the hardware -- in short, a large-scale P.R. job. It was a noble project which had, unfortunately, to be paid for by people who were not all noble. But now Prometheus had gone sour, its Ship-side personnel seemed to be devolving into vicious and sadistic killers while back at home nobility was breaking out in some of the most unlikely places."
"Very well, sir," said McCullough. "Our problem, or rather your problem, is this. We are being told what to do by people who do not know all the facts, and who don't want to be told them because of the effect the telling might have on public opinion. Their instructions to us, if you could call them instructions, are so general in nature and so hedged around with qualifiers and warnings that they don't really seem to mean anything. We need help. Not only are we not getting it, we are being ordered not to ask for it!"
"There is nothing original about this course," McCullough went on. "It is a clear case of your eyes and your hands scandalizing you, and you then quote the highest possible Authority regarding your subsequent action in the matter. If your right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out. If your right hand scandalize thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, and so on. But if you were thinking straight, you would realize that this is not a true analogy."
"We are the experts in this particular situation. It is ridiculous to expect us to obey people who know less about it than we do -- people who, if they were to regain complete control over us, are under so much pressure from so many different directions that they are incapable of giving proper orders anyway."
"I, personally, would like corroboration of my findings in the Two autopsy," McCullough went on, anger gradually replacing the fear in his voice. "Moral support, if you like, for a theory and a decision I am too much a coward to take alone. Instead of giving me the necessary support, Brady nearly had a fit and would not let me finish explaining the situation! I don't know what has happened to them back there. They act as if they are having an emergency instead of us!"
"And there is a really uncomfortable idea, thought McCullough, then went on quickly, "These orders are harsh, inflexible and ill-considered. In a short time they will, like the earlier ones, be amended and qualified. We'll still be forbidden to kill Twos -- unless circumstances make it absolutely necessary. Exploration will be allowed -- within certain limits which will not be clearly defined. It will be suggested that we obtain further data on the hyperdrive generators -- if this can be done without upsetting the aliens, or without running too great a risk of upsetting the aliens. Gradually the orders will contain so many qualifiers we will be back in square one, but with our self-confidence reduced and our tempers drastically shortened."
"Cynically, McCullough went on, "Instead of being heroes it seems we are to become scapegoats -- at least, that is the way it looks to me. But this means that we will have to be allowed some freedom of action, otherwise they would not be able to blame us for everything that is happening . . . (...) "In other words," said Drew grimly, "if we can't please anyone we can at least try to please ourselves."
On being human (and alien...):
"And remember, this is not a game. If anyone feels like treating it as one they should remind themselves that the nearest hospital is sixty million miles away and the ambulance service is bad . . ."
"When the Two was dead, the furry animal did not try to eat it, but instead undulated over to the mesh. Possibly it was a vegetarian."
"McCullough tried to think of other things while the slaughter proceeded."
"McCullough laughed. He said, "Cynicism is a very good defense. Throw in a little sympathy for the enemy -- Brady, that is, not the Twos -- while a good, hefty shot of megalomania might help as well. You start by doubting everything they tell you and questioning all their motives, at the same time trying to appreciate the general's position, but not to the extent that you fail to realize the true importance of the part we have to play in all this. So you doubt Brady, you feel sorry for him and, in your quiet, respectful fashion, you also feel superior to him. Get the idea?"
"Of late," said Walters doubtfully, "I have become much less quiet and respectful."
"His conscience seemed to be developing thick and widespread calluses. He wondered how long it would be before he became completely decivilized."
"But then McCullough realized that he was beginning to sound like General Brady and that the three men were expecting compliments instead of criticism, so he added gravely that the cumulative effect of the toxins would probably take the form of a long, wasting, ultimately fatal disease indistinguishable from old age."
"The times they each woke up struggling and screaming did not count, of course, because they all did that."
"For it was not only their personal friends at Prometheus who had betrayed and rejected them, it was their whole lousy race!"
To finish, a rounding of a few more nice turns of phrase:
"For the analysis of the air sample taken in the corridor had shown that the alien atmosphere was not harmful to human beings and was, in fact, much less toxic than the air of an average city."
"There was no shame attached to admitting that one was a coward, he thought cynically, just as long as one did not prove it."
"(...) and McCullough, who was a difficult and unsatisfactory character for children to portray, moved around doing nothing, apparently, but change his mind."
July 3, 2019
This author is quickly becoming one of my favourites. James White was an excellent storyteller, and a sadly underrated master of the science fiction genre. I thoroughly enjoyed his novel The Silent Stars Go By, and All Judgment Fled certainly exhibits the same standard of writing. As a Big Dumb Object book, it invites comparison with Clarke's Rendevous with Rama and Niven's Ringworld, but it was actually written in 1967 before either of those two novels were published. Personally, I found it more thought-provoking than those standard works, too. While it is undoubtedly now classed as old-school science fiction, it does not feel especially dated and is, in my opinion, definitely worth reading.
July 12, 2023
A spaceship appears on the edge of the galaxy, two capsules full of men are sent to make first contact. They encounter some issues.
This is great for a period piece. There is a nice warm up period on the journey out where we get to meet the astronauts and have some drama.
Then all of a sudden we are on the alien spaceship trying to figure things out.
Very easy to read, not too heavy. The psychological elements of being in space and meeting a new race are played out a bit heavy for my liking.
A good bit of action, just a hint of politics.
A nice light read.
This is great for a period piece. There is a nice warm up period on the journey out where we get to meet the astronauts and have some drama.
Then all of a sudden we are on the alien spaceship trying to figure things out.
Very easy to read, not too heavy. The psychological elements of being in space and meeting a new race are played out a bit heavy for my liking.
A good bit of action, just a hint of politics.
A nice light read.
June 21, 2016
A gripping tale of horror couched in medical accuracy that amplifies the sense of unease. As ever, White's prose is readable and his characters accessible. Tension mounts unbearably until the midpoint, after which point padding somewhat bungles the momentum, but the novel rallies for the third act and goes out with a bang. White's unique medical perspective shines as well here as it does in the Sector General series.
Halfway between Lovecraft and Crichton; classic atheist horror. 4/5 stars.
Halfway between Lovecraft and Crichton; classic atheist horror. 4/5 stars.
July 21, 2019
A very tense first contact story, which, though not a Sector General book, has some similar plot and world-building elements. (Having read several White books in a row, I can say many of the sci fi works contain similar themes.)
It reminds me of Lord of the Flies (not in plot, but in tone, which is all I can say without spoilers.)
It reminds me of Lord of the Flies (not in plot, but in tone, which is all I can say without spoilers.)
May 9, 2017
For my money, just about the best First Contact novel ever, and certainly something that would make a stunning film. Once "All Judgment Fled" kicks in, it's fast-moving, thoughtful, and powerfully visual.
September 27, 2023
When a manned mission to Jupiter is diverted to investigate an alien spacecraft it initiates a first contact scenario. From then on things go very pear-shaped! James White has taken the traditional ‘proceed-with-caution’ approach to first contact and thrown the rule book away. From the initial forced entry into the alien ship, the killing of an occupant and its subsequent dissection, to the widespread slaughter of creatures on-board, everything they do is wrong. Not only that, but it is all being live-streamed globally on Earth. Needless to say opinions vary back on Earth. Horrified outrage to a more militaristic and jingoistic support for killing aliens. On the ship however, the humans have identified three different types of creatures - nominally Ones, Twos and Threes. The Twos are constantly attacking the humans but can’t seem to operate the simplest handles or equipment, leading them to be labelled animals. The Threes get designated pets. Throughout there is a breathtaking anthropomorphism which clouds their judgment. Unfortunately for the military advisers on Earth (and fortunately for the author who stacked the deck) the men on the alien ship seem to be vindicated despite their egregious mistakes.
December 13, 2022
I didn't like this book at all. It took half the book before there was even any action. Much too much of the book was psychological maundering by the main character and even the other characters. I deal with psych oriented medical records daily, so I'm normally pretty interested in the psych aspects of a story. This was just boring dreck. The reactions of the General on Earth who was supposed to be in charge of the overall mission were ridiculous and completely unbelievable. Anyone reacting the way he did and saying the things he did would have been removed. I had to force myself to finish it and will be selling it at my local used bookstore as soon as possible. If they don't want it, I'll donate it to Goodwill or St. Vinnie's. It was just awful. I gave it 2 stars because at least there were no grammar or spelling errors, but I debated on giving it 1 star.
Skip this story. Read the Sector General series by the same author. It is 100 times better.
Skip this story. Read the Sector General series by the same author. It is 100 times better.
December 31, 2021
Finally reread the mystery book! It's good fun, but VERY dated, and we say why on the podcast, SFBRP episode #479.
Thanks to listener Simeon Beresford for identifying it, Luke and Juliane finally read and review the 1960’s first contact novel featuring blanket aliens: All Judgment Fled by James White.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/1947
Thanks to listener Simeon Beresford for identifying it, Luke and Juliane finally read and review the 1960’s first contact novel featuring blanket aliens: All Judgment Fled by James White.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/1947
April 17, 2024
Just couldn't find myself feeling attatched to the story and characters. The Author goes into very long descriptive pages that don't really add anything to the story and feels boring. There were a few great chapters mixed in with mostly mediocre ones and some bad chapters. The final act was very interesting from a sci-fi perspective, but all together it fell short of felling like a compelling and anchoring story.
January 15, 2019
I think I'm probably going to read a lot of old science fiction this year. Glen got me a ton of "if", sci fi magazines from the 60s and 70s. This book was a serial in the first one I picked up (added fun, old books in serial form. I happened to have all the months for this one, but I got super lucky!)
I really liked this! It was different from what I expected for first contact. I really really appreciated the distance/communication factor, the men on the pods making choices in real time, while all of earth over analyzes and debates, judging their every more, second guessing decisions... The military trying to censor what goes out and also psychologically messing with the crew. I'm pretty sure this was my favorite part. I could see that happening I guess?
The characters could have been a bit more developed, and I kinda wish it had a different ending? But overall, I really enjoyed this read.
I really liked this! It was different from what I expected for first contact. I really really appreciated the distance/communication factor, the men on the pods making choices in real time, while all of earth over analyzes and debates, judging their every more, second guessing decisions... The military trying to censor what goes out and also psychologically messing with the crew. I'm pretty sure this was my favorite part. I could see that happening I guess?
The characters could have been a bit more developed, and I kinda wish it had a different ending? But overall, I really enjoyed this read.
February 17, 2014
James White was never one to avoid difficult situations. In one of his early short stories in the Sector General universe, a human "babysitter" put in charge of an alien "baby" discovers that he has to use a baseball bat in order to "pat" the baby to sleep. Unfortunately, he is seen doing this by another member of staff, and you can imagine the circus that happens after that.
"All Judgement Fled" is one of my all time favourite books. A first contact novel (one of the first, if you'll forgive the pun), and one full of very human political and social conflicts as well as very alien problems and threats.
[Spoiler Alert - no details]
This was written in the 60's so it is filled with that time's paranoia (Although has it really changed that much today?). An alien ship approaches Earth, but it does not respond to signals or in fact seem to do anything much at all.
A ship is sent out to meet it, manned by an international crew. The alien ship is really huge, and simply getting on board is a challenge.
But the real challenge begins when they get inside to discover that there are alien lifeforms on board. But what kind of aliens? And how to communicate with them, if it is possible at all, while trying to stay alive and dealing with the demands of the Earth authorities, presents the crew with a terrible and deadly puzzle. And when an alien is killed, it becomes a political disaster back on Earth.
There is much more to the story, which comes to a satisfying conclusion at the end of the book without a cliffhanger or overly metaphysical event.
But, as with all of James White's books, it is the human (or human and alien in the case of the Sector General books) dimension that creates the real interest in the book.
"All Judgement Fled" is one of my all time favourite books. A first contact novel (one of the first, if you'll forgive the pun), and one full of very human political and social conflicts as well as very alien problems and threats.
[Spoiler Alert - no details]
This was written in the 60's so it is filled with that time's paranoia (Although has it really changed that much today?). An alien ship approaches Earth, but it does not respond to signals or in fact seem to do anything much at all.
A ship is sent out to meet it, manned by an international crew. The alien ship is really huge, and simply getting on board is a challenge.
But the real challenge begins when they get inside to discover that there are alien lifeforms on board. But what kind of aliens? And how to communicate with them, if it is possible at all, while trying to stay alive and dealing with the demands of the Earth authorities, presents the crew with a terrible and deadly puzzle. And when an alien is killed, it becomes a political disaster back on Earth.
There is much more to the story, which comes to a satisfying conclusion at the end of the book without a cliffhanger or overly metaphysical event.
But, as with all of James White's books, it is the human (or human and alien in the case of the Sector General books) dimension that creates the real interest in the book.
June 13, 2015
If memory serves me correctly the Science Fiction Encyclopedia compared this book to Rendezvous with Rama and said it was better, or in some ways more realistic. While looking for a short book to read for the end of the year, and completing my Christmas baking, I chose this.
I've read White before, and I do like his work. Yet, his prose can be a little thick to tread through. In reality that should be a minor issue, but I do have moments when I wish his writing was a quicker/easier read. I do believe White does an excellent job of creating excellent aliens. This shows up most in his Sector General stories, where the medical staff has developed a classification system for aliens, and he deals with alien psychology and physiology.
He does that here in a very good first contact novel. The science is essentially straight from today as two craft will take about three months to reach an alien ship that has stopped just beyond Mars' orbit. The six picked to go on the mission have specific scientific knowledge or skills to aid in first contact and/or learning abut the new technology.
Except things go wrong during the journey to the craft, and the first contact goes in a path I think most writers, yeah I'm going to my olde harangue, especially today would not have gone. I'm not going to give away spoilers, but I do think White takes the story in a realistic and not necessarily happy ending for all involved.
Added note: in a 24/7 news cycle era with social media playing such a large part in our lives, a story point is how all of the astronaut's communication is going out uncensored live to the world and the effects it has on events on Earth and how those effects affect command's orders to the crew.
I've read White before, and I do like his work. Yet, his prose can be a little thick to tread through. In reality that should be a minor issue, but I do have moments when I wish his writing was a quicker/easier read. I do believe White does an excellent job of creating excellent aliens. This shows up most in his Sector General stories, where the medical staff has developed a classification system for aliens, and he deals with alien psychology and physiology.
He does that here in a very good first contact novel. The science is essentially straight from today as two craft will take about three months to reach an alien ship that has stopped just beyond Mars' orbit. The six picked to go on the mission have specific scientific knowledge or skills to aid in first contact and/or learning abut the new technology.
Except things go wrong during the journey to the craft, and the first contact goes in a path I think most writers, yeah I'm going to my olde harangue, especially today would not have gone. I'm not going to give away spoilers, but I do think White takes the story in a realistic and not necessarily happy ending for all involved.
Added note: in a 24/7 news cycle era with social media playing such a large part in our lives, a story point is how all of the astronaut's communication is going out uncensored live to the world and the effects it has on events on Earth and how those effects affect command's orders to the crew.
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July 23, 2009Just to prove I'm not an uncritical fan of James White's, I hated this book. White was generally a kindly, nonviolent writer--but he had several flaws, and one of the most obvious is fully developed in this book. White didn't believe that 'nonintelligent' creatures had any rights whatever, and had no compuction about abusing and killing them. Always reminds me of the stories in which explorers land on heavily vegetated planets and say 'There's no life'. The planet is COVERED with life, because plants ARE alive.
February 14, 2011
James White's aliens are indeed very alien. As heavy on the psychology as lifeboat but with a little more on the ball a la Hospital Station
November 1, 2012
This book was written in 1969, but it could have been written in the 40s or 50s, it has that feel to it. There is nothing outstanding to it, its just your typical pulp.
May 22, 2015
An expedition to an alien spaceship goes terribly wrong.
June 5, 2015
1983 grade C+
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