BLARSON@ECLD.#ECLnet (08/14/84)
From: Bob Larson <BLARSON@ECLD.#ECLnet> Worlds Apart --- Joe Haldeman Ace Paperback: September 1984 $2.95 Isbn: 0-441-91072-6 (My how time flies, I thought it was still August.) Micro-Review: Ho-hum Mini-review: Not bad, but not great. Interesting Ideas not fully developed. Review: This book, a sequil to WORLDS, is a post world war 4 (or 3) novel centered on the surviving L5 type space station. Action takes place, but it happens to the main character more than being caused by the main character. It contains two separate plot lines that get further apart as the book continues. I do like Joe Haldeman's writing style, but this book reads like the middle book of a trilogy: much of the action taking place before the book starts and there is no solid ending. The original idea in this novel... a plague that kill everyone over about 20... is used more as a backdrop than anything else. This review probably makes the book sound worse that it is, but this certainly isn't Joe Haldemans best work. P.s. Which story is Rhysling from? I recognize all the other dedications. -------