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Rocheworld #3
Marooned on Eden
Marooned on Eden is the third of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Rescued From Paradise. In Marooned on Eden, the human explorers of the Barnard Star System, along with their jelly-blob alien friends, the flouwen, explore the moons of the gas-giant planet, Gargantua. They find an Earth-like moon and use their rocket landers to explore it further. The rocket crashes and they find themselves marooned for the rest of their lives on a veritable Eden.
384 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1993
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October 12, 2024
Read in 2024, 31 years after its writing.
I have read and enjoyed previous works by Forward.
This one, not so much.
The hard SF up front is interesting, but so very dry. Pages and pages of "you see, Jim, ..." broken up by attempts to relieve the drudgery with conversations in which characters explain things at length to their colleagues who would HAVE to have known it all already.
And then we kick into Reiki's diary. Oh my. I have almost 3500 SF/F books in my reading log (yes, I'm old) and I am quite sure I have never come across a character so uninteresting. She's aggressively boring, and I cannot imagine how she could ever have been selected for the crew. Imagine a 1947 librarian in a small Iowa town. Picture the lace collar and cuffs she so adores, and has chosen as her outfits for a one-way voyage into space. Now imagine her squirming with discomfort and finally speaking up meekly when someone's good manners lapse. This is Reiki.
I just couldn't stand her any more and I DNFed about halfway.
Darn it, the flouwen were promising ...
I have read and enjoyed previous works by Forward.
This one, not so much.
The hard SF up front is interesting, but so very dry. Pages and pages of "you see, Jim, ..." broken up by attempts to relieve the drudgery with conversations in which characters explain things at length to their colleagues who would HAVE to have known it all already.
And then we kick into Reiki's diary. Oh my. I have almost 3500 SF/F books in my reading log (yes, I'm old) and I am quite sure I have never come across a character so uninteresting. She's aggressively boring, and I cannot imagine how she could ever have been selected for the crew. Imagine a 1947 librarian in a small Iowa town. Picture the lace collar and cuffs she so adores, and has chosen as her outfits for a one-way voyage into space. Now imagine her squirming with discomfort and finally speaking up meekly when someone's good manners lapse. This is Reiki.
I just couldn't stand her any more and I DNFed about halfway.
Darn it, the flouwen were promising ...
September 3, 2010
Really cool "anthropology-based science-fiction". Parts of the same story told through the eyes of very different creatures.
Like all the Rocheworld books, it's partly a mystery story where we eventually learn the full picture of the situation.
The different perspectives of the same story reminded me of Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the sky".
Like all the Rocheworld books, it's partly a mystery story where we eventually learn the full picture of the situation.
The different perspectives of the same story reminded me of Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the sky".
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