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Fiction

Play Little Victims

Play Little Victims by Kenneth Cook

by John McLaren
September 1978, no. 4

Play Little Victims by Kenneth Cook

Pergamon Press, 87pp, $5.95pb

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Kenneth Cook’s latest book is a parable for adults. At the end of the second millennium A.D., God remembers the duty he has overlooked at the end of the first, destroys life on earth. However, no doubt due to his advanced age, he is a little careless, and in a valley in the in the middle of the United States, two mice survive. They and their rapidly multiplying descendants inherit man’s civilization, including thought and speech, but otherwise not memory. They have to develop theory and institutions from scratch, guided by reason and reading.

 


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Play Little Victims by Kenneth Cook

Pergamon Press, 87pp, $5.95pb

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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