Title: Another fake "collaboration" between Clarke and idiot
Product review: The first seven pages are marvelous. They postulate an imaginative alien biosphere threatened with various extinctions (an ice age and, subsequently, competition between species). Zoological spacefarers rescue peaceful lifeforms from this world, then proceed to Earth during our own antiquity. Beautifully written. Obvious Clarke.Then it is obvious Lee takes over, and the other reviews here seem to bear me out. Childish scribbling unrelated to the prologue or anything else (something about an undersexed newsreporter, an underwater telescope, and a lost Panther missile gone astray in a test off the Florida Keys). The ear for dialogue is puerile, and the story sense is totally uninvolving. I gave up after 39 pages.After the awful last installment in the Rama series, I should have known better. Now that Clarke has left us, can we be aswsured Lee's career is over? Hope so.
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