Re: The Long Way Home (was Re: Retro Review: Out Around Rigel, by Robert H. Wilson)


"James Nicoll" <jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Anderson came up with a way to do a similar
story,
albeit without the horrible shock, in one of his
last novels,
STARFARERS. In that, the crew were mostly people
the government
wouldn't miss and they were deliberately sent on
a long,
glorious mission.


He used that idea a number of times.

In _Recruiting Nation_, the first interstellar
astronauts were a bunch of deadbeats because noone
else wanted to go. This was ok, since by the time
they reached A Centauri, their children would be
running things.

In _Orbit Unlimited_ the pioneers are a bunch of
dissdents the gov't wants rid of. No doubt others.

--
Mike Stone - Peterborough, England


It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have
given up believing in the
Devil, when he is its only explanation.

Ronald Knox.
coll


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