![]() It's possible I read it in the 1980s it's the sort of book that I would look for. It felt familiar but I have no memory of it. I was convinced! I had to read "Superluminal" by Vonda McIntyre.Īfter a few pages, I was sure I'd read this before. ![]() ![]() If you enjoy science fiction and fantasy, there are many thought-provoking essays on ( ). I expect I will eventually read more of McIntyre's works. They are a little one-dimensional and some of the cool stuff veers a little close to new-age territory.īut overall I enjoyed this novel and ended up finishing it. Her characters are emotional and ambitious. Many of her technology predictions were prescient. It's not too difficult to predict portions of the plot, but I'm not sure McIntyre particularly cared. The action moves along nicely and the presence of many female characters is a nice counterpoint to the preponderance of male heroes in mainstream SF at that time. This book manages to scratch two of my itches at once - it's sci-fi and it's earthly locations are set in the pacific northwest, which I have called home for many years. McIntyre fits into that sci-fi niche, but as her books were published in the 70s and 80s, my interests had moved on so I missed reading her at the time.Ī friend loaned me his copy of Superluminal so I am now catching up. This was in the 1960s, so I became a fan of many of the popular authors of that period I was a big sci-fi nut in my early teens, returning to the science fiction shelves of my local library regularly until I'd read a large percentage of the books thereon. ![]()
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