[net.sf-lovers] Life Probe author identified

mooremj@EGLIN-VAX (07/17/85)

From: mooremj@EGLIN-VAX

> From: RPS385%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA  (Jeff Smith)
> 
> There is a really good story dealing with artificial intellegence,
> man's first contact with extra-terrestrial intellegence, and FTL
> travel, called "Life Probe".
> ...
> This book is really great, and the author has written more, but I
> can't seem to remember his name.

The book is by Michael McCollum.  I wholeheartedly second the
above recommendation.  The author also wrote a very good set of
parallel-universe stories which were collected and expanded in
the book _A_Greater_Infinity_.  I've been waiting for a sequel to
the latter for a while now; other than the two books and one other
short story written with his wife, he hasn't done anything else
that I know of.

                          marty moore (mooremj@eglin-vax.arpa)