Title: Great science lectures---terrible stories...
Product review: Clement may have been a great guy, a great scientist and a great SF conventioneer as Bova suggests in the Intro, but, gad zukes! these 'stories' are not really stories at all. They are science lectures delivered by cardboard cutout characters in space suits.The first story, 'Cold Front' is, I swear this is true, a meteorological story where the weather is the main focus. I kid you not. I tried a few more and, finding them the same, returned the book.If you read SF for a science puzzle then this will send you into orbit. I have no doubt his science is correct, but had I wanted to read a science text I would have bought one.If, like me, you prefer your fiction with vivid characters, exciting plot, fresh dialog and most of all...conflict, then avoid this author.Try instead Silverberg, Poul, Triptree or Leiber.
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