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Bezig met laden... The complete Venus Equilateral (origineel 1976; editie 1976)door George O. Smith
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I've hit my limit with this book. I'm often a fan of 40s science fiction, but the first story is a fairly standard engineer story of how stupid bureaucrats are, and the second story was a torturous problem story, and a purely engineering problem story at that. How do you contact a ship in deep space, since it's so small and space is so big? Same way they kept contact with the much smaller, much lower power Voyagers over a much greater distance. Yes, that post-dates the 1940s, but it was always strictly an engineering problem. Both of them had me rolling my eyes. Maybe I'll pull it off the shelf in the future, but I doubt it. A Selection of short stories set on a communication station 'Venus Equilateral', between earth and venus. Heavy on the Science, this is true golden age stuff written mostly in the 1940s. In parts it even has a little comic book feel to it. Extremely inventive science, even if you know nothing of science (like myself) the futuristic valve tube technology is a blast. Venus Equilateral is of it's time in some ways : As a result female characters are mainly present as, fiances, wives, sisters etc. There really is something about this book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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