![]() The mystery is that in 2027 A dead man is found on the moon, his spacesuit is nothing like those used by the UNSA and after a short bit of research it is clear he’s been there for 50,000 years. The book is best approached as a mystery. I sometimes got an image in my mind of Isaac Asimov reading Inherit the Stars and having to light up a post-idea cigarette.Īs frequent readers of my reviews will know, I have very little desire to write spoiler-free reviews of 44-year-old books. This is a book about ideas and that’s it. Nobody’s spacesuit ruptures, nobody’s virgin-launch spaceship has a glitch. There is no real tension, no villain (more on this later), no real action. My views are split: the ideas that make up the book are very good, but the actual story? Dull. Inherit the Stars is very much a book of its time, and its time is 1976. ![]() ![]() I had to move my mom into assisted living last year and in sorting the books (oh, the books!) into ‘take with her,’ ‘move on,’ and ‘keep for myself,’ I gently slipped them into the ‘keep for myself’ pile, and now, two years later, I have started to read them. Sometimes on the shelf, sometimes on the coffee table, sometimes on the end table. ![]() Hogan’s Giant’s Trilogy has been a presence at my parents’ house since the late 70s. Inherit the Stars (Del Rey, 1990 reprint). ![]()
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