Dykstra's War | |||||
Jeffery D. Kooistra | |||||
Baen Books, 406 pages | |||||
A review by Peter D. Tillman
Dykstra's an engaging character, as is the gorgeous genano engineer Samantha "Sunshine" MacTavish. Kooistra's other characters,
aside from an autistic idiot-savant who loves squirrels, are straight stock, but carry their spears adequately. I did wince
at some of the dialogue:
This is Kooistra's first novel. Long-time Analog readers may recognize a couple of 1993 stories incorporated into the book.
Kooistra is a science columnist for Analog, and delights in stirring up trouble by advocating fringe-science
ideas, some of which show up here.
The cover (by Patrick Turner) is gloriously lurid, featuring (by my count) eight exploding spaceships, a tiny sample
of the half-million or so destroyed inside the book.
Pete Tillman has been reading SF for better than 40 years now. He reviews SF -- and other books -- for Usenet, "Under the Covers", Infinity-Plus, Dark Planet, and SF Site. He's a mineral exploration geologist based in Arizona. More of his reviews are posted at www.silcom.com/~manatee/reviewer.html#tillman . |
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