> expanded my attitudes around colonization. It is a remarkable thing that Wolfe, whose views were conservative and who occasionally voiced suspicion of modern

> expanded my attitudes around colonization. It is a remarkable thing that Wolfe, whose views were conservative and who occasionally voiced suspicion of modern academia with its focus on race and gender, wrote decades ago a work that really does mesh with modern post-colonial studies. I keenly recommended The Fifth Head of Cerberus to a friend of mine who is a scholar in that field, but sadly the robot on the cover of the Orb Books edition made him assume it was just goofy sci-fi.