Starswarm

By Brian W. Aldiss

Book Overview

An interconnected set of stories set on a distant, vast galactic cluster. Each world in the cluster contains the descendants of Old Earth, and though light years apart from its neighbours, forms part... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671559990
• ISBN13: 9780671559991
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

future civilization space operas

This isn't your average 40+ year old SF book. There's nothing hokey about it nor does it even feel like a golden-age SF novel. The books reads as a collection of short stories involving the future civilization of humans beyond our solar system. Each story is a space opera in itself. All stories are detailed with sociology and culture from future-humans... in human form or otherwise. Great speculation; written well ahead of its time. Fine Aldiss!

Colorful short stories of characters in the far future

This wide-ranging survey of Humanity spread throughout the galaxy in the far future tells stories of characters in ordinary (in their time) and extraordinary situations - a nagging wife, preparing for battle, etc. I especially enjoyed the wild yarn of Smith's Burst - it seems fresh and different even decades after it was written. Emphasis is on characters and how they intereact with the worlds formed by their uncountable ancestors. Much material to inspire the artist, not so much for the hard SF fan. One of my favorites, I wish I hadn't loaned it out...