mclure@sri-unix (08/28/82)
#N:sri-unix:1900004:000:605 sri-unix!mclure Aug 27 17:46:00 1982 Just finished Poul Anderson's TAU ZERO (1970) and was very pleased with it as a hard-SF tale. I preferred it to Forward's DRAGON'S EGG or Hogan's THE GENESIS MACHINE and THRICE UPON A TIME. The story is about a relativistic "ultimate trip" spanning eons. Unfortunately, as is often the case with hard-SF, the characters were a bit card-board and the author had perhaps succumbed to the Star Trek syndrome of forcing a-member-of-every-ethnic-persuasion. But the narrative is strong and the speculations and sense-of-wonder are there. One of the few SF novels I've been able to finish lately... Stuart