From: utzoo!decvax!cca!STEW@MIT-MC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: The perfect spacesuit
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4719
Posted: Tue Dec  7 22:26:57 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 08:52:48 1982

From: Stewart D. Rubenstein <STEW at MIT-MC>
Mike Meyer <mwm at OKC-UNIX> mentioned one example of the attempt
to describe an optimal spacesuit.  This topic has been at least
glancingly addressed in probably hundreds of novels.

My vote for the perfect spacesuit goes to the symbiotic growth in
Spider & Jean Robinson's "Stardance".  Even the humans' original
spacesuits are pretty minimal.  This is an excellent novel, by the
way; the characters are mostly believable, including the "aliens", and
I've read no other book which so vividly conveys a feeling for the
absolute \awesomeness/ of outer space.

				stew