| SF Reviews by Aaron M. Renn | By Author - By Title - By Date Reviewed |
Conclusion: Worth Reading
This book is a strange one. Earth is dying after a nuclear war. A group of largely unlikeable characters goes on a space voyage looking for a habitable planet for humanity to migrate to. They arrive at a system with an alien stargate that sucks them to a system further from Earth than anyone has ever travelled. Then, well, I'm not sure what all happens, but it's a lot of strange stuff. Note that this book is loaded with profanity, sex, and graphic sex fantasies. I don't think that's a horrible thing in and of itself, but in this case I think it detracts from the story. If Barton and Capobianco had ditched the lame characters and the sex, and focused more on their relatively interesting ideas, I would have liked it a lot more. As it is, I thought this book was pretty average.
%A Barton, William and Capobianco, Michael %T White Light %I Avon %D 1999-08 (original publication 1998-10) %G ISBN 0-380-79516-7 %P 343 pp. %0 mass market paperback, US$6.99
Reviewed on 1999-08-31
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