i give it 5 stars just because it is orders of magnitude better than sundiver which i gave 4 stars. a bit too long, but the science was interesting and kept me going. i thought the narrative could have benefited from a POV off world, rather than just imply there were battles raging "out there". w...
A small group of humans and one intelligent chimpanzee assist aboard the first dolphin spaceship. I read this book while recovering from a knee injury and had to spend a lot of time in a Jacuzzi; the perfect environment to read a novel about a spaceship filled with water.
Really deserves about 7 stars. One of the best SF novels ever written. The plucky humanrace against the old, evil, jaded universe. What could be better? Plus the science is so convincing and the characters so real.
Really deserves about 7 stars. One of the best SF novels ever written. The plucky humanrace against the old, evil, jaded universe. What could be better? Plus the science is so convincing and the characters so real.
I'm finding Startide Rising to be fairly slow going, too. The story is interesting, and I care what happens, but the writing, while better than that in Sundiver, is still choppy and unprofessional. He changes viewpoint character, no kidding, every two or three pages for significant chunks of the b...
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