Road to the stars

Rating:
Summary: Charming science fiction adventure
Review: The year is 2088, and a young man is faced with a decision to attend college on Earth or travel among the stars and thus be separated from everything that he knew. He finds a way to combine his interests in archeology with his yearning for adventurous space travel, and the result is archeological detective work relating to what may be the first signs of intelligent alien life. The story is straightforward but convincingly done. The scenes of Earth in 2088 are compelling, and the space flight is done in a proper science fiction manner... that is, it involves actual science rather than some Buck Rogers sort of fantasy scenario. An excellent book for young scientists to start into the genre, and a good read for older scientists as well! This book is character-oriented and very readable. In fact, I found it so readable I went through it in a single day... I was reluctant to put it down. I especially loved how each person on the ship was assigned important duties, and thus the young protagonist finds himself teaching an archeology class! That was excellent! This is the sort of thing that made the original Star Trek series so appealing...trained people working together so that their combined knowledge can achieve something that humans have never seen or done before. Inspiring.

Rating:
Summary: Charming science fiction adventure
Review: The year is 2088, and a young man is faced with a decision to attend college on Earth or travel among the stars and thus be separated from everything that he knew. He finds a way to combine his interests in archeology with his yearning for adventurous space travel, and the result is archeological detective work relating to what may be the first signs of intelligent alien life. The story is straightforward but convincingly done. The scenes of Earth in 2088 are compelling, and the space flight is done in a proper science fiction manner... that is, it involves actual science rather than some Buck Rogers sort of fantasy scenario. An excellent book for young scientists to start into the genre, and a good read for older scientists as well! This book is character-oriented and very readable. In fact, I found it so readable I went through it in a single day... I was reluctant to put it down. I especially loved how each person on the ship was assigned important duties, and thus the young protagonist finds himself teaching an archeology class! That was excellent! This is the sort of thing that made the original Star Trek series so appealing...trained people working together so that their combined knowledge can achieve something that humans have never seen or done before. Inspiring.