From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!inuxd!arlan
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Review of Michener's SPACE
Article-I.D.: inuxd.212
Posted: Mon Nov 29 16:40:43 1982
Received: Wed Dec  1 03:50:53 1982

'Just read SPACE during a nice trip to Florida.  I thought it to be very good,
and disagree with comments here a few months ago that Michener was anti-SF.
True, the stars of the book were not young fen, but when properly introduced
to real SF, they responded commendably.  Dr. Mott, one protagonist, was
particularly impressed by Weinbaum; Randy Claggett, the redneck astronaut,
was described as a lifelong fan; and several references are made, favorably,
about Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury.

To top it all off, when one (SPOILER!!) astronaut crashes on the moon, his
last words are "Blessed St. Leibowitz, let them keep on dreamin' down there..."

Who could possibly top that line?


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