STEW@MIT-MC@sri-unix (12/08/82)
From: Stewart D. Rubenstein <STEW at MIT-MC> Mike Meyer <mwm at OKC-UNIX> mentioned one example of the attempt to describe an optimal spacesuit. This topic has been at least glancingly addressed in probably hundreds of novels. My vote for the perfect spacesuit goes to the symbiotic growth in Spider & Jean Robinson's "Stardance". Even the humans' original spacesuits are pretty minimal. This is an excellent novel, by the way; the characters are mostly believable, including the "aliens", and I've read no other book which so vividly conveys a feeling for the absolute \awesomeness/ of outer space. stew