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Title: Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, Barry Malzberg ISBN: 0-531-15072-0 Publisher: Franklin Watts Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Even more relevant today
Comment: With calls for a National ID system with biometric controls, Agent of Chaos should be required reading for everyone to understand what a government could do with the ability to track everyone everywhere. We are now descending into the fascism that Spinrad predicted, but much sooner than he anticipated.

Rating: 4
Summary: ULTIMATE CHAOTIC ACT
Comment: The author opened each Chapter with a verse from George Markowitz, fictive author of the Theory of Social Empathy. He draws his characters in this story to produce conflict between the theory of social order and of that of social chaos. Sprinrad presents human emotions as random factors serving the forces of chaos. This is a very good job of using his characters to teach his anti-utopian ideal. Basically he is telling his reader to stop fighting the entropic degradation of the universe--just lay back and enjoy it. That one group committed suicide, as the Brotherhood of Assassins did, in order to accomplish their mission of universal planetary exploration was a paradox that enthralled the author. Thus he labeled victory by suicide as the Ultimate Chaotic Act.

Rating: 3
Summary: Who is Norman Spinrad
Comment: Norman Spinrad is one of the best writers of the 1970's. His novel Bug Jack Barron is considered one of the 100 best SF books of all time. This is one of his first novels and as such is a precursor of the technique and themes appearing in later books. I would buy this book. But then again, I know a book with Spinrad's name on it will not be a waste of time or money.