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A Forest of Stars (Saga of Seven Suns) (Hardcover)

by Kevin J. Anderson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Aspect (Jul 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0446528714
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446528719
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 3.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,527,076 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good storytelling, shaky science, 28 Sep 2003
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Kevin Anderson writes good yarns, and I shall continue to follow this series.

However, his work would be enormously improved if he were to pay a bit more basic respect to the science that underlies his storyline. I have, incidentally, noticed the same thing in Anserson's collaborations with Brian Herbert in the Dune precursor books; he (or they) get careless on the science, which reduces the enjoyment for those of us who do have a reasonable scientific education.

Anderson has orbiting space stations harvesting hydrogen from gas giants in order to use it to create a special fuel required for FTL travel. That seems straightforward enough, and reasonable science; but then we are told that these hydrogen farms are open to the sky, and apparently the upper reaches of the gas giant atmosphere constitute a breathable medium for humans. And to boot, the hydrogen farms are held up by antigravity, which seems an unnecessary complication if they're in orbit anyway!

Then we get a humanoid alien race that has physically differentiated castes adapted for their lifestyle and career. That's OK. The different castes can interbreed with each other; that's also OK, and has parallels in our own world's biology. However, we then find that the aliens are interfertile with humans, and this is a very important plot element, probably essential if I guess the way the plot's going in future volumes. Well, even this might be credible if the story turns out to have this alien race (who have a very ancient documented history) related to humans at some time in our own ancient history, which is a common enough SF plot device to be OK. But ...

... We are also told about a bunch of human colonists who have settled on another world that was abandoned by the aliens because of a plague on that planet that struck them down; and when the colonists get worried that they might get the same sickness, it is pointed out to them (correctly, of course) that the likelihood of the same bacterium or virus being able to infect two species from different worlds is infinitesimal. The trouble is that if the two races are interfertile, then our DNA and theirs must be even more closely similar than, say, ours and that of chimpanzees. And that in turn would mean that we very definitely *do* have a risk from their pathogens.

Kevin, please could you get someone to review the science in your stories? They'd be so much better for nit-picking people like me, without in any way damaging their appeal to others.

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