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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 664.1 | Not so good, too bad! | BLKFOR::WILKINS | Trust me, I know what I'm doing | Thu Aug 04 1988 15:36 | 23 |
| Don't bother. I just finished it and was bored to tears. You could
see the style carryover from the Andromeda Strain but this just
wasn't nearly as good.
Summary after the <FF> SPOILERS
Norman, a psycologist, wrote a paper for the Carter Administration
about the formation of a team to investigate the arrival of aliens.
Many years later the plan is invoked and he is wisked off to the
south pacific. He and the team find a space ship on the ocean floor
1000 feet down. They enter the ship, discover its really from the
U.S. of the future and is unmanned. It has appearntly passed through
a black hole on the edge of our solar system and returned but missed
the correct time by a "little bit". (This is the first half of the
book) The team finds a misterious sphere in the cargo hold an suspect
it is an alien object. The become trapped on the ocean floor in
a habitat by weather and continue to investigate the sphere. They
are threatend by sea monsters, most of the team dies, many psycological
things start to happen, and ....... I'll save the absolute end
for those that must read this in spite of what I said above.
Dick
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| 664.2 | Gulp! | UCOUNT::BAILEY | Corporate Sleuth | Thu Aug 04 1988 16:15 | 3 |
| Gosh, I sorta liked it...
Sherry
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| 664.3 | I second the "forget it" vote... | DECWET::BEAVER | Think of it as evolution in action.... | Thu Aug 04 1988 21:18 | 5 |
| I'd second the vote for don't bother; after the last couple of Michael
Crichton books I've read, I'd sooner read the Wall Street Journal
for fiction. Ho Hum.....
...db
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| 664.4 | | VIDEO::TEBAY | Natural phenomena invented to order | Fri Aug 05 1988 13:15 | 2 |
| Good beach book!
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| 664.5 | Another Save Your Time and Money | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Fri Aug 05 1988 15:21 | 7 |
| I read it a while back, and was very disappointed. I kept muttering
to myself, "this just doesn't make any sense". The book seemed
calculated to be made into a movie or TV special, and the hell with
the science.
len.
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| 664.6 | major disappointment | TFH::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Mon Aug 08 1988 17:31 | 12 |
| re .0:
ditto, maybe good beach reading but terrible SF, remake of Andromeda
Strain, etc, etc, and the ending... <MAJOR SPOILER>
Come on now: "let's just forget the whole thing happened"? GIVE
ME A BREAK!
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| 664.7 | major flaws | HANZI::SIMONSZETO | Simon Szeto @HGO, Hongkong | Sat Aug 27 1988 06:48 | 2 |
| Well, I had nothing else to do on a trans-Pacific flight...
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| 664.8 | | AIMHI::OFFEN | | Mon Sep 26 1988 10:28 | 7 |
| Sorry gang.
I enjoyed it.....
Sandi (Steven King Fan)
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| 664.9 | Thumbs down. | DELNI::HALLOWELL | | Tue Jan 03 1989 18:07 | 4 |
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I thought the ending was pitifully weak.
Rikk (who *knew* where the ship came from before Norman)
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