Book Review: Noise

Today's book review is Noise by Hal Clement.

( Fine world-building; an interesting story; one very annoying science gaffe )

Except for the no silicon = no computers thing, I definitely enjoyed this novel. If I could ignore the silicon issue, I think it would be my favorite Hal Clement novel and I'd give it a 9, but that gaffe really got on my nerves, so my rating will be a 7 out of 10.

A sad postscript is that this is probably the last Hal Clement novel, since Harry Stubbs ("Hal Clement"'s real name) passed away recently. We've been losing too many of the old guard SF authors lately.

Deepest Sender (Firefox extension)

I downloaded the Deepest Sender Firefox extension LJ client and I'm giving it a try. This won't be an interesting entry.

( Meanderings behind a cut )