Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!DOLSON@USC-ECLB.ARPA From: DOLSON@USC-ECLB.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Kate Wilhelm's Welcome Chaos Message-ID: <2030@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 20-May-85 02:19:37 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2030 Posted: Mon May 20 02:19:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 21-May-85 04:21:15 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 From: Douglas M. Olson Just finished the new Wilhelm, _Welcome,_Chaos_, and was impressed overall. Well paced, nice conflicts, and styled well (at least, I liked it...). A few mild flaws *** spoiler warning *** in that this seemed like a contemporary spy thriller; like _The_Boys_From_Brazil_ or some such. It is contemporary, had some mis-direction about who were the good guys, the Soviets were involved and events threatened to launch WW III. All ok as far as it goes, but not the kind of book I expected. One other item crept in which bothered me; the main group here had a secret to protect and they tended to kill anybody whose research led in the same direction. This had been successful enough (and somehow unobtrusive enough) to prevent most folks from following up that line. But one of their victims 'was already spending his Nobel money' which seemed strange; how could this research possibly be secret if a Nobel had been awarded on the same lines? *** end-of-spoiler *** This minor point really didn't detract more than momentarily, the book was great. ddo (dolson @ eclb.arpa) -------