From Library Journal
In the trend toward resurrecting television shows from the 1960s and 1970s, Lost In Space is a welcome addition. This version, based on the new feature film, contains more suspense, violence, action, technology, gadgetry, and weaponry, more ecological, political, and family values, and, of course, more sex than we're used to in the old reruns. The story, radically enhanced, begins with the Robinson family taking off into space on a humanitarian mission to find a new world, as Earth is soon to be inhabitable. But things go awry early in the voyage when the evil stowaway-turned-prisoner Dr. Smith sabotages the ship and the famous "Danger, Will Robinson" robot. From this point forward, the similarities between the old series and the new adaptation are abandoned. Their travel adventures include an encounter with deadly alien monsters, a brush with time-displacement where they meet their future selves, and a crash landing in such detail that it can almost be visualized. Mimi RogersAwho plays Maureen Robinson in the filmAimmediately captures the listener's attention with a reading that has energy, intensity, and an elegant, almost heroic vocal quality. More than oral interpretation, she gives a performance. Recommended for all sf collections.ACharlie Weiss, formerly with "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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About the Author
Joan Vinge has been described as "one of the reigning queens of science fiction" and is renowned for creating lyrical human dreams in fascinatingly complex future settings. She has won the Hugo for her novel
The Snow Queen. Vinge is the author of the bestselling
Return of the Jedi Storybook, World's End, and
Psion, Kirkus called her novel
Catspaw, "an engrossing and satisfying read."
The Summer Queen, a sequel to
The Snow Queen, was published in 1991. She is currently writing two novels set in the Bronze Age.
Dreamfall, which
Publisher's Weekly called a "richly detailed and suspenseful sequel to
Catspaw," was on the
Locus 1996 Recommended Reading List.
