F/SF

SF. Pretty good hard fiction. Good author

Really neat ideas and good characters. It read a bit like a really good Star Trek episode. Once again though, I wish he wouldn't have put on the last chapter. In the WWW series, I felt the end undermined the rest of the series. In this one, it just was a little too neat. Never gild the lilly baby! Never gild the lily!

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It started of weak and b-story like and then worked itself up to some amazing page turning middle part to then just end in some fizzle micro ending.

Not bad, but could have been much better. ( )

Starplex

Since a lot of Sawyer’s current writing is strained and when not strained political, I look back at his earlier stuff that I do like. I have not read Starplex (the name of the starship) and really liked its similaries to Star Trek, and the adventures the ship’s crew was having.

Really liked the interaction between Keith and his wife Clarissa as her husband struggled against his “mid life crisis” and a certain sexy assistant who had her eyes on Keith.

Despite that subplot we meet all kinds of characters and creatures and even come to like a few of them. Too bad this was never a continuing series.

The scientific babble that goes on is a bit over my head and it needn’t be if the author defines his terms better.

Otherwise quite an enjoyable, eventful hard science story from 1995. ( )