NOISE
Hal Clement, . . Tor, $23.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0857-3
In SFWA Grand Master Clement's ponderous hard-SF think-piece set several millennia in the future, historian and anthropologist Mike Hoani joins the crew of a metal-scavenging catamaran on the planet Kainui. A water-covered world circling a binary star system, Kainui is far from a tropical paradise—colonists must wear pressure suits in the poisonous atmosphere and must don further protective gear when working in the salty and corrosive seawater. The planet's Maori-descended colonists live a nomadic existence, traveling about by boat or on one of the planet's anchorless floating cities. Hoani participates in the sea-mining operations of the good ship
Reviewed on: 07/28/2003
Genre: Fiction
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