Title: Unfortunate mix of ideas and a Mary Sue
Product review: Borrowed Tides is a good title but as a book it is an unfortunate mix of ideas. I'll try not to spoil the book with details, but the science is weak at best and the attempt to get metaphysical seems like a feel-good way to overcome a lack of knowledge of basic physics. For example the so-called "boomerang effect" is nothing new for space travel -- Jules Verne predicted it! -- but is presented as something far out. Dr. Levinson's background in media and internet (check his amazon list!)turn the book's "hero" into a kind of wishful thinking "Mary Sue". It is diffcult to imagine a less likely (or less competent) mission leader! The cover promised me a rip-roaring space adventure, but that's not what I got. Some interesting ideas here, but it doesn't gel.
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