Rob Seaman scripsit: > Niven's FTL spacecraft make voyages to neutron stars and the center of > our Galaxy. But it is the effect of these voyages on Beowulf Shaeffer > that makes the story. That is, the stories of even the nerdiest > practitioners of this nerdiest profession still hinge on characters > and the theatricality of their experience. Not much has changed since > the original Beowulf, other than the media used to tell the stories.
I agree absolutely. So pick up a copy of _The Heaven Chronicles_ from your favorite out-of-print bookstore, online or brick and mortar, and enjoy. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ccil.org/~cowan No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. --John Donne _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
