Title: Too bad....
Product review: This book is the result of a previously succesful, gifted author--Clarke--deciding late in his days that it's OK to get political. The result is a wish list of things that might issue from technology. We have my namesake, Horton, making the serendipitous discovery of an effect that no one can explain, but which causes the destruction of nitrogen-based explosives. What does the world do then?Another reviewer points out the imbalanced viewpoints, pro-gun people being totally irrational in the book, anti-gunners being walking ages of reason. I agree with his criticism of this. One might do well to send Messers Clarke and Kube a copy of John Lott's excellent statistical study of the matter: More Guns, Less Crime.Or:I could just chalk it all up to the genre. After all, it's *supposed* to be fiction. I might as well see the idea that predatory people won't take advantage of a Trigger as another part of the same fiction. Too bad that it flies in the face of demonstrated human nature.
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