(Ed Soyka’s cover for the 1969 edition)
3.5/5 (Good)
I love finding a SF book on the used bookstore shelf by an author I have never heard of. I am even more excited when a virtually unknown novel is endorsed by one of the great SF critics, in this case John Clute. According to Clute’s SF Encyclopedia entry [link] M. K. Joseph was a UK-born resident of New Zealand where he worked as a professor of English and writer. His early novels and poetry were not SF—The Hole in the Zero (1967) is his first, and one of his only, SF works.
Brief Plot Summary/Analysis (*as always, some spoilers*)
The Hole in the Zero is primarily a character driven novel that takes a space opera premise, with (initially) very standard space opera characters, and contorts and Continue reading