Thomas Mcdonough

It's a wonderful tongue in cheek story backed by great speculative science. The combination of the sometimes screwball comedy with the specifics of how hyperspace could work and the details of the time lags of space communication, etc, made for a believable and well formed diegesis. There were times reading this book that I just had to stop to laugh. The book reminds me a great deal of Red Dwarf.

This book kind of went off on some tangents but all in all it was an entertaining story. I really enjoyed it.
There is also an essay at the end that explains some of the concepts of dark matter that is the main theme of the story put into easy to understand terms.
I guess I can no longer blame lost socks in the dryer on a paralell universe anymore since the dryer can not reach escape velocity speed.

The book tried to make statements about how we should be while it was also trying to establish show more how we might react and interact with another intelligent life form if we ever came across it. Sometimes this got annoying but not enough for me to become disinterested in the story.

I did think it was funny how the author incorporated things from T.V. shows and made them similar to shows we would know but different, like, Carlo's Angels, My three Clones, Gidget goes to Mars etc. And then there is the Robot named Sly. Not going to spoil it for anyone but it had the image of a movie star everyone should recognize.

A good read if you can ignore the soapbox like tangents. show less

DNF. “Cryocrocs” swimming in liquid oxygen? Stilted language and unrealistic dialogue? Yep.