![]() ![]() Theory of general relativity insists that objects attain infinite ![]() Light speeds is flatly impossible, and the slightly more lenient But according toĮinstein's theory of special relativity, movement at faster than įaster than light travel has been one of the most intriguing andįrustrating challenges of science fiction, which generallyĭistinguishes itself from fantasy by writing about technologies andĮvents that are at least scientifically plausible. And then there's Redshift Rendezvous, in some ways even truer to the hybrid ideal. Isaac Asimov's robot stories (in contrast to his faster-than-light ships in space) are a good example. People often ask me to name a science fiction/ mystery hybrid that really works. To start, here's my 1992 review, published in the Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, of John Stith's Redshift Rendezvous (Ace, 1990, 256 pp.), now available on Kindle. I thought it was time to begin putting these reviews up on this blog, one or two a month, right alongside the more numerous reviews of television series. I've published dozens of reviews of science fiction novels by well-known and little-known authors in the past few decades, in the New York Review of Science Fiction, Tangent, the Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, and other places. ![]()
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