#a bertram chandler

[grayrazor]

Non-Star Trek books that are kind of Star Trek-like (quality not guaranteed)

Spaceship finds a weird object/alien civilization:

Rendezvous With Rama

The Mote in God’s Eye

The Invincible

Blindsight

Utopian interplanetary society:

3001: The Final Odyssey

The Culture Series

The Hainish Cycle

Contact

Napoleonic Navy in Space:

Lensman

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Honor Harrington

John Grimes

[heroofthreefaces]

Building your own hell? Have at it! Go spare. 

Someone else making hell for you? Lemme at’im

A. Bertram Chandler called it everyone’s right to go to hell their own way.

Mr. Gabriel Utterson, finally deciding to do something about Jekyll's weird-ass will:

[tomoleary]

Virgil Finlay "The Tin Fishes” by A. Bertram Chandler in Worlds of If magazine (December 1968) Source

[70sscifiart]

Uncredited 1972 cover art for Rendezvous on a Lost World, by A. Bertram Chandler. Likely by John Schoenherr

[curiousb]

The Bingley Family Album: Volume XV

We're catching up with another member of the Bingley clan today - Benjamin, over in Sanditon, and his fiancé Walter.

Top of the list after getting his own place, was to adopt a dog from the animal shelter. Enter Moody! He reminds Benjamin a lot of his childhood pal Bella.

~ Libra

~ Doofus / Lazy / Friendly / Pigpen

He proves to be great company while Benjamin is alone at home during the day.

And the pair soon form a close bond. (He also sports some rather splendid facial hair, just like his master.)

He quickly becomes a favourite with Dog Person Walter too. His family never had any pets while he was growing up, but he's thoroughly enjoying having Moody around now.

Benjamin was also keen to set up his own dedicated art studio at home, to pursue his dream of perfecting a masterpiece.

He finds inspiration everywhere he looks.

Well, I guess his ambition to make his mark on the art world has to start somewhere!

Robert doesn't know about art, but he knows what he likes, and that includes his ex's oeuvre.

Walter meanwhile is still risking life and limb on a daily basis as an Adventurer. He's certainly well equipped for tackling the considerable risk posed by taking a shower.

Also on the agenda is hosting a house-warming party. Unfortunately, it turns into an occasion for Benjamin's past conquests to come back to haunt him - including his flings with Townie Chandler Platz (undocumented), Julia,...

...Robert and Anna.

While Walter was happy to be just one of many before their engagement, he now expects a little more commitment from Benjamin.

Now that they've reached a firm understanding as to the footing of their relationship, everything is soon smoothed over between them.

And - much to the surprise of both - it's hello, impending parenthood! But will Walter stay the course this time, or will he cut and run, just as he did in the past with Cassandra? (I've given up trying to rationalise same-sex pregnancy in my game - Sims aren't humans, they don't have the same biology as us, so it just happens, because I want it to! 😁)

[thesebooks]

"What the fuck just happened?" — I find myself asking this question a lot, lately

Original title: "Into the alternate universe" by A. Bertram Chandler (1964)

[snuh]

H.R. Van Dongen: To Keep the Ship - A. Bertram Chandler, 1978

[tgyverse]

― 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐃.

publicado el día 19 de agosto de 2023.

𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐬.

Ninguna pendiente.

𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨���𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐳𝐨́𝐧.

Ninguna pendiente.

𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚.

Ninguna pendiente.

𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐬.

Ninguna.

𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞́𝐧 𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬.

Ningune.

𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝.

Amos Diggory ― no ha iniciado su actividad.

Alecto Carrow, Gilderoy Lockhart, Gwenog Jones, Narcissa Malfoy, Nicholas Macmillan, Ted Tonks, Peter Pettigrew ― tres semanas sin actividad.

Lily Evans & Dalia Chac Bolay ― no ha iniciado su actividad.

𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐬.

Sturgis Podmore, Andrea Prewett, Baptiste Travers, Bellatrix Lestrange, Bertram Aubrey, Gladys Gudgeon, Ivan Davies, Lucius Malfoy, Ludo Bagman, Sirius Black ― inactividad.

𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬.

Alex Fitzalan.

Alexandra Park.

Andrea Chaparro.

Bill Skarsgard.

Charlie Gillespie.

Gavin Casalegno.

Luca Hollestelle.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Timothée Chalamet.

Yankel Stevan.

𝐏𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋

orden del fénix.

Dorcas Meadowes con Laura Harrier.

Emmeline Vance con Simone Ashley.

Frank Longbottom con Lee Jongsuk.

Gideon Prewett con Björn Mosten.

James Potter con Reiky De Valk.

Lily Potter con Marina Ruy Barbosa.

Remus Lupin con Andrew Garfield.

mortifagos.

Alecto Carrow con Emma Mackey.

Amycus Carrow con Freddy Carter.

Dalia Chac Bolay con Melissa Barrera.

Rabastan Lestrange con Michael Evans Behling.

Rodolphus Lestrange con Regé Jean Page.

Yvette Lévesque con Suki Waterhouse.

civiles.

Agatha Figg con Lily Rose Depp.

Alastair Montague con Lorenzo Zurzolo.

Amelia Bones con Maia Reficco.

Amos Diggory con Ross Lynch.

Andromeda Tonks con Daisy Edgar Jones.

Angela Finnigan con Banita Sandhu.

Arthur Weasley con George Mackay.

Aurora Rowle con Lily Collins.

Bertha Jorkins con Halle Bailey.

Betty Braithwaite con Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.

Brigitte Delacour con Meg Donnelly.

Cassia Clearwater con Grace Van Dien.

Danny Wood con Jung Jaehyun.

Daisy Hookum con Eleanor Tomlinson.

Darcy Brown con Aimee Lou Wood.

Dawn Withey con Kathryn Newton.

Doris Purkiss con Macarena García.

Ellie Dowson con Hayley Lu Richardson.

Gilderoy Lockhart con Dacre Montgomery.

Glenda Chittock con Elle Fanning.

Greta Catchlove con Saoirse-Monica Jackson.

Gwenog Jones con Chandler Kinney.

Hestia Jones con Nana Komatsu.

Jonathan Nott con Tyler Young.

Lorcan d'Eath con Thomas Doherty.

Mary MacDonald con Bae Suzy.

Michael Bones con Chance Perdomo.

Mina Lima con Kim Jisoo.

Minerva MacMillan con Samantha Logan.

Molly Weasley con Karen Gillan.

Narcissa Malfoy con Jenny Boyd.

Nicholas MacMillan con Jordan Fisher.

Pandora Lovegood con Anya Taylor Joy.

Peter Pettigrew con Jordan Connor.

Phoebe Elliot con Madelyn Cline.

Rosalind Bungs con indefinido.

Scarlett Travers con Sabrina Carpenter.

Stubby Boardman con Hwang Hyunjin.

Ted Tonks con Paul Mescal.

Wendy Slinkhard con Natalia Dyer.

Zoe Nettles con Sophie Turner.

TOTAL: 54 personajes ocupades.

¡Buenas noches a todes! Por aquí les dejamos nuestro primer recuento. Estamos muy felices con el desarrollo del proyecto como verse y no nos queda más que agradecerles por la actividad y el cariño expresado hacia Golden. Por el momento mantendremos la trama un poco tranquila ya que continuamos adaptándonos pero en las semanas venideras comenzaremos a mover todo un poco. Esperamos se encuentren muy, muy bien. ¡Saludos y abrazos a todes!

— 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐍.  

[manfrommars2049]

A. Bertram Chandler - Catch the Star Winds via CoolSciFiCovers

[bookmaven]

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW & THE FAIRY CHESSMEN by Lewis Padgett [aka Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore] (New York: Gnome, 1951) Cover art by Harry Harrison. Published in an edition of 4,000.

CHESSBOARD PLANET [aka THE FAIRY CHESSMEN] (New York, Galaxy Novel #26, 1956) Cover by Ed Emshwiller.

Astounding Science Fiction, January 1946 [v36 #5] Cover by William Timmins.

THE FAIRY CHESSMEN by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Orban [Part 1 of 2]

N Day by Philip Latham. Illustrated by Kramer

Veiled Island by Emmett McDowell. Illustrated by Williams

A Matter of Length by Ross Rocklynne. Illustrated by Williams

The Plants by Murray Leinster. Illustrated by Raymond

Fine Feathers by George O. Smith. Illustrated by Kramer

Astounding Science Fiction, January 1947 [v38 #5] Digest size. Cover by William Timmins

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Orban [part 1/2]

Housing Shortage · Harry Walton. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

Sinecure 6 · Horace B. Fyfe Illustrated by Swenson

The Undamned · George O. Smith. Illustrated by Swenson

Command · Bernard I. Kahn. Illustrated by Orban

Time to Die · Murray Leinster. Illustrated by Swenson

Bad Patch · A. Bertram Chandler. Illustrated by Swenson

[sarkos]

It's always bugged me that Mughi, the Dirty Pair's pet/co-conspirator looked like a Coeurl (and is labelled as such in the WIkipedia), but there's that fuzzyness for how sci-fi and such interact with Japanese culture (see Dr Who having the Zeon show up at almost the same time as the Zeon in Gundam)

So the Dirty Pair novels are published in 1980, so it seems possible that Yas saw a Displacer Beast from D&D by that time, right? Except the germ of the Dirty Pair is from 78 which makes that seem unlikely (again from Wiki):

The inspiration for Dirty Pair novels was a visit to Japan by the British Australian science-fiction author A. Bertram Chandler, probably in 1978. On his itinerary was a stop at the young Studio Nue, which Takachiho co-founded. As something to entertain their guest, two of the staffers there, Yuri Tanaka and Keiko Otoguro, hit upon the idea with Takachiho of taking Chandler to a tournament of the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling organization, which was a member of the World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA). The card included the highly-popular wrestling (and singing) team, the Beauty Pair. Something that passed among the foursome during that match led Chandler to remark to Takachiho something to the effect that "the two women in the ring may be the Beauty Pair, but those two with you ought to be called 'the Dirty Pair'."[6]

This became the germ of an idea for a novella Takachiho decided to write, transplanting the rough-housing of pro-wrestling to the realm of space-opera mystery stories, with which he already had experience in his already successful Crusher Joe series. The team code-name "Lovely Angels" is also a play on the names of certain women's teams of the time, such as the Queen Angels.

(Chandler's daughter married Ramsey Campbell, which isn't relevant, but still kinda neat )

Marvel’s Worlds Unknown No. 5, featuring “Black Destroyer” by A. E. Van Vogt, story adapted by Roy Thomas, cover by Gil Kane, February, 1974.  (via Marvel Database)  This version of Coeurl the feline alien probably inspired the appearance of the displacer beast in D&D.  See also several versions of Coeurl.

[brookston]

Holidays 8.17

Holidays

Archeology Day

Baby Boomers Recognition Day

Balloon Airmail Day

Black Cat Appreciation Day

Cartoon Day

Coats’ Disease Awareness Day

Congressional Startup Day

Davy Crockett Day

Discovery Day (Yukon Territories, Canada)

817 Day

Engineer’s Day (Colombia)

Flag Day (Bolivia)

Jade Day

Lois Lane Day

Marcus Garvey Day (Jamaica, Rastafari)

National Abel Day

National David Day

National Engineers’ Day (Colombia)

National I Love My Feet Day

National Marilyn Day

National Massachusetts Day

National Meaning of "Is" Day

National Nonprofit Day

National #2 Pencil Day

National Termite Protection Day

National Thrift Shop Day

National Workers’ Comp Adjuster Day

Parsi New Year’s Day (Nauraj, India)

Phineas & Ferb Day

Pike Place Market Day

Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia)

San Martin Day (Argentina)

World Eggplant Day

World Pedestrian Day

Wrench Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Burgers to Beat MS Day (Canada)

Buttered Popcorn Day

Drink Coffee at the Office from a Sippy Cup Day

National Vanilla Custard Day

3rd Thursday in August

National Hazy IPA Day [3rd Thursday]

Surströmingspremiären (Sour Herring Premiere; Sweden) [3rd Thursday]

Independence Days

Gabon (from France, 1960)

Indonesia (from Japan, 1945)

Feast Days

Agostino Carracci (Artology)

Cat Nights begin (Ancient Ireland)

Clare of Montefalco (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Sacred Grove (Pagan)

Feast of Our Lady of Knock

Festival of Diana (Ancient Rome)

Gnocchi Gnawing Day (Pastafarian)

Hyacinth of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne Delanoue (Christian; Saint)

Lacaille (Positivist; Saint)

Liberatus, and six monks (Christian; Martyrs)

Mamas (Christian; Saint)

Odin’s Ordeal begins (Norse) [thru 25th]

Portunalia (Festival of Keys; Ancient Rome)

Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler (Episcopal Church)

Sharon Mitchell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Walter (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 229 [50 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

After Lorca, by Jack Spicer (Poetry; 1957)

Animal Farm, by George Orwell (Novel; 1946)

Bloody Kisses, by Type O Negative (Album; 1993)

Chili Weather (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Cruel to Be Kind, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1979)

Disenchantment (Animated TV Series; 2018)

Ducking the Devil (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Dust, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk (Novel; 1996)

Franks Wild Years, by Tom Wait (Album; 1987)

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1876) [Ring of the Nibelung #4]

Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Song; 1992)

Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis (Album; 1959)

Luxo, Jr. (Pixar Cartoon; 1986)

The Merry Old Soul (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Film; 1979)

My Blue Heaven (Film; 1990)

ParaNorman (Animated Film; 2012)

Phineas & Ferb (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Rat Race (Film; 2001)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley (Novel; 1976)

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV Series; 2022)

Soul Train (Music Variety TV Series; 1970)

Superbad (Film; 2007)

Taking Care of Business (Film; 1990)

Tiger Rag, recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Song; 1917)

Tulips & Chimneys, by e.e.cummings (Poetry; 1923)

Wild at Heart (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Austria)

Hijacint, Klara, Liberat, Miron, Natalija (Croatia)

Petra (Czech Republic)

Anastatius (Denmark)

Saamo, Saamu, Saamuel (Estonia)

Venni, Verneri (Finland)

Hyacinthe (France)

Clara, Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Germany)

Lefkothea, Miron, Straton (Greece)

Jácint (Hungary)

Giacinto (Italy)

Anaida, Drosmis, Oļegs, Vilibalds, Vineta (Latvia)

Hiacintas, Laisvydas, Mažvilė (Lithuania)

Verner, Wenche (Norway)

Anastazja, Angelika, Anita, Bertram, Eliza, Jacek, Jaczewoj, Joanna, Julianna, Liberat, Miron, Żanna, Zawisza (Poland)

Darya (Russia)

Milica (Slovakia)

Beatriz, Eusebio, Jacinto (Spain)

Valter, Verner (Sweden)

Hyacinth, Jachinth, Jacinda, Magnolia, Pansy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 229 of 2024; 136 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 33 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 2 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 30 Av 5783

Islamic: 30 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 19 Hasa; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 3 August 2023

Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Lacaille]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 57 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 26 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.17

Holidays

Archeology Day

Baby Boomers Recognition Day

Balloon Airmail Day

Black Cat Appreciation Day

Cartoon Day

Coats’ Disease Awareness Day

Congressional Startup Day

Davy Crockett Day

Discovery Day (Yukon Territories, Canada)

817 Day

Engineer’s Day (Colombia)

Flag Day (Bolivia)

Jade Day

Lois Lane Day

Marcus Garvey Day (Jamaica, Rastafari)

National Abel Day

National David Day

National Engineers’ Day (Colombia)

National I Love My Feet Day

National Marilyn Day

National Massachusetts Day

National Meaning of "Is" Day

National Nonprofit Day

National #2 Pencil Day

National Termite Protection Day

National Thrift Shop Day

National Workers’ Comp Adjuster Day

Parsi New Year’s Day (Nauraj, India)

Phineas & Ferb Day

Pike Place Market Day

Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia)

San Martin Day (Argentina)

World Eggplant Day

World Pedestrian Day

Wrench Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Burgers to Beat MS Day (Canada)

Buttered Popcorn Day

Drink Coffee at the Office from a Sippy Cup Day

National Vanilla Custard Day

3rd Thursday in August

National Hazy IPA Day [3rd Thursday]

Surströmingspremiären (Sour Herring Premiere; Sweden) [3rd Thursday]

Independence Days

Gabon (from France, 1960)

Indonesia (from Japan, 1945)

Feast Days

Agostino Carracci (Artology)

Cat Nights begin (Ancient Ireland)

Clare of Montefalco (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Sacred Grove (Pagan)

Feast of Our Lady of Knock

Festival of Diana (Ancient Rome)

Gnocchi Gnawing Day (Pastafarian)

Hyacinth of Poland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne Delanoue (Christian; Saint)

Lacaille (Positivist; Saint)

Liberatus, and six monks (Christian; Martyrs)

Mamas (Christian; Saint)

Odin’s Ordeal begins (Norse) [thru 25th]

Portunalia (Festival of Keys; Ancient Rome)

Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler (Episcopal Church)

Sharon Mitchell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Walter (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 229 [50 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

After Lorca, by Jack Spicer (Poetry; 1957)

Animal Farm, by George Orwell (Novel; 1946)

Bloody Kisses, by Type O Negative (Album; 1993)

Chili Weather (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Cruel to Be Kind, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1979)

Disenchantment (Animated TV Series; 2018)

Ducking the Devil (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Dust, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk (Novel; 1996)

Franks Wild Years, by Tom Wait (Album; 1987)

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1876) [Ring of the Nibelung #4]

Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Song; 1992)

Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis (Album; 1959)

Luxo, Jr. (Pixar Cartoon; 1986)

The Merry Old Soul (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Film; 1979)

My Blue Heaven (Film; 1990)

ParaNorman (Animated Film; 2012)

Phineas & Ferb (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Rat Race (Film; 2001)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley (Novel; 1976)

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV Series; 2022)

Soul Train (Music Variety TV Series; 1970)

Superbad (Film; 2007)

Taking Care of Business (Film; 1990)

Tiger Rag, recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Song; 1917)

Tulips & Chimneys, by e.e.cummings (Poetry; 1923)

Wild at Heart (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Austria)

Hijacint, Klara, Liberat, Miron, Natalija (Croatia)

Petra (Czech Republic)

Anastatius (Denmark)

Saamo, Saamu, Saamuel (Estonia)

Venni, Verneri (Finland)

Hyacinthe (France)

Clara, Gudrun, Hyazinth, Janine (Germany)

Lefkothea, Miron, Straton (Greece)

Jácint (Hungary)

Giacinto (Italy)

Anaida, Drosmis, Oļegs, Vilibalds, Vineta (Latvia)

Hiacintas, Laisvydas, Mažvilė (Lithuania)

Verner, Wenche (Norway)

Anastazja, Angelika, Anita, Bertram, Eliza, Jacek, Jaczewoj, Joanna, Julianna, Liberat, Miron, Żanna, Zawisza (Poland)

Darya (Russia)

Milica (Slovakia)

Beatriz, Eusebio, Jacinto (Spain)

Valter, Verner (Sweden)

Hyacinth, Jachinth, Jacinda, Magnolia, Pansy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 229 of 2024; 136 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 33 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 2 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 30 Av 5783

Islamic: 30 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 19 Hasa; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 3 August 2023

Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Lacaille]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 57 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 26 of 31)

[spacemerchants]

THE ALTERNATE MARTIANS 🔴 // A. Bertram Chandler Cover // Jerome Podwil Publisher // Ace [Double] (1965)

[asexual-spock]

(the cage by a. bertram chandler)

you know how old scifi is. [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote t

[asexual-spock]

The Machine had been developed to be Man's [servant] - but ever since the twentieth century a peculiar breed of Man had proliferated that was all too ready and willing to become the Machine's servants, far too prone to sacrifice human values on the altar of Efficiency.

A. Bertram Chandler, The Hard Way Up