Paths to otherwhere

405 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 1997 by Baen, Distributed by Paramount Pub..

ISBN:
978-0-671-87767-5
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OCLC Number:
36681030

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3 stars (1 review)

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3 stars

This story had a lot of potential, started out quite interestingly indeed. Sadly, it suffers from what I call Sawyerism - taken from [a:Robert J. Sawyer|25883|Robert J. Sawyer|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1224975910p2/25883.jpg]'s tendency to end cracking scientific novels with transhumanic or Utopian Nirvana-like happy ever afters. Not that I can say Sawyer did it first, of course, but I encountered it first with him.

On the other hand, there were some very good bits: the science was fun, the Human observation good too, especially at the end of chapter twenty-four, and the single word slip that gives the game away in chapter forty-two was also very, very clever. Shame about the end.