![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book turned out to be the first volume in the Minervan Experiment/Giants sequence, being followed by The Gentle Giants of Ganymede ( 1978), both assembled as The Two Moons (omni 2006), plus Giants' Star ( 1981), all three assembled as The Minervan Experiment (omni 1981 vt The Giants Omnibus 1991) the series was continued with Entoverse ( 1991), a tale that laboriously expands the initial premise through the use of a Parallel World in which, rather oddly for a writer pugnaciously associated with the Hard-SF wing of the genre, only Magic can cope with the strangeness of the physical world – in the earlier volumes of the sequence the reader was safely in the hands of an author who brooked no such nonsense. His first novel (and first publication), Inherit the Stars ( 1977), aroused interest for the exhilarating sense it conveys of scientific minds at work on real problems and for the genuinely exciting scope of the sf imagination it deploys. ![]() (1941-2010) UK-born systems-design engineer and author, in the USA from 1977 and latterly in Ireland he was a full-time author from 1979. ![]()
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