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Title: Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford, David Brin ISBN: 0785774386 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26
Rating: 4
Summary: A great example of "hard" sci-fi
Comment: My dad, who got me started on sci-fi as a kid, recently complained that too much of today's sci-fi is more fantasy than science. I'm going to send him this book for Christmas, because it tackles so many areas -- space travel, biology, even sociology. I thought it was one of the best hard sci-fi books I've read, ever.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Acheivement in Hard SF
Comment: HEART OF THE COMET is one of the best true science fiction novels I've read in a very long time. In some ways, it is classic hard science fiction, with very convincing scientific extrapolations that stay well away from the science-fantasy cliches of FTL travel, transporter beams, and the like. On the other hand, the book is rather atypical for hard SF, in that, as a result of the hostile indigenous life and endless factional fighting, it makes the grand task of colonizing Halley's Comet seem about as appealing as a life sentence in a third-world prison. This results in a continual tension between the sweeping, go-where-no-man-has-gone-before scope of the book and the spectacularly unpleasant living conditions to which the characters are subjected.
The three main protagonists (and a lot of the supporting characters) are very well-drawn. Like good hard-SF lead characters, they overcome the adversity of their circumstances with their technical expertise and willpower. We see them shaped over the years by life on the comet, in once case, growing believably from a rather callow youth into a confident, skilled leader. Some of the antagonistic supporting characters, and there are many of them, are well drawn, but others have a tendency to become stereotypical amalgams of the sorts of irrationality of which the authors clearly don't approve.
On the whole, I found myself enthralled by this book. It creates a plausible, coherent environment unlike just about anything else I've read, and populates it with (mostly) interesting and well-conceived characters. One blurb on the book said that it was better than DUNE; I won't go quite that far, but it certainly was impressive.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Hard Science Fiction Book
Comment: Finally!! The blurbs on the book cover do it justice. What a woderful book written by two science fiction masters. I had put ofrf reading this book and had it for several years. I picked it up after a friend recommended it and WOW!. It is truly a world building story and the characters are lovingly portrayed and the plot moves along quickly. This is one "hard" science fiction book that does not get bogged down in science facts and details. Just enough to keep you interested. I can;t say enough good things about this book. Too bad these two authors didn;t collaborate on another project.
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Title: The Practice Effect by David Brin ISBN: 055326981X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson ISBN: 0812545249 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hello Out There by Jack McDevitt ISBN: 1892065231 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Voyage by Stephen Baxter ISBN: 0061057088 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter ISBN: 0061056480 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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