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The Risk Profession
Donald E. Westlake · 2011
58/100
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A tidy little pulp mystery dropped into a retro asteroid-belt setting — the genre mashup is fun in concept but the novella's brevity means everything stays at the surface level. Westlake fans and classic SF completists will enjoy it as a curiosity, but there isn't enough here to recommend it on its own merits.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance50
craft60
originality62
accuracy65
hype45
age-fit75
human-eye52
Penny’s verdict58
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