Return to Rocheworld [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert L. Forward (Author), Julie Forward Fuller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

Hard SF by the author of Rocheworld and his daughter. When the first interstellar expedition reached Barnard's Star, explorers found a bizarre double planet populated by hyperintelligent water-dwellers. Soon a new aquatic race is discovered--intelligent but unfriendly beings whose territorial instincts make them attack any creature that intrudes on their domain.

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About the Author

Dr. Robert L. Forward is a space scientist and businessman, lecturer, futurist and science fact and hard science fiction writer with eleven published books and over one hundred shorter pieces.Julie Forward Fuller, his daughter, has written two published science fiction novels and a fantasy novel. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Baen (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671721534
• ISBN-13: 978-0671721534
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,414,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A vehicle for scientific speculation. Fascinating!, December 1, 2000

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Carlos Cotta (Spain, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Return to Rocheworld (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the second title (out of five) in the Rocheworld Saga. The humans sent to Barnard's system discovered intelligent (in the most stringent sense of the word) life on Rocheworld, a weird double planet subject to complex dynamics and tidal forces. These aliens -the flouwen- are aquatic amoeba-like creatures living in the oceans of Eau, one of the lobes of the double planet. The flouwen are centuries ahead of us in Mathematics, but have no technology.

In this book, the flouwen are explored more in depth. We learn about their physiology and social structure. Using human technology, the flouwen get into space for the first time, and help the humans in their exploration of Roche, the second lobe of Rocheworld. Then, two longly-separated evolutionary branches meet again...

As with many other Forward's books, neither plot nor characterization are the strongest points in this novel. However, Forward manages once again to put together so much thought-provoking scientific speculation that makes you forget any other deficiencies.

Having read "Rocheworld" (aka "The Flight of the Dragonfly") before starting this novel is obviously recommended, but I guess one could even get into the story without it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Characterization somewhat better than the first book, November 3, 2008

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to Rocheworld (Mass Market Paperback)

Since Hal Clement's Mission of GravityMission of Gravity. hard science fiction dealing with the weird xenobiology of aliens
has been hard to find. The author Robert Forward is good on Einsteinian level physics and gravity, but hasn't been too good on human interaction in previous sci fi. This book seems an improvement there. His space ships and air plane designs seem like something that would get you killed?
The ideas of dna and carbon based life being somewhat alike on other planets
that have developed in parallel is kind of hard to take.
Jelly fish that are intelligent is a real stretch.
But you have to give him credit for effort when other writers just
fail in anything scientific.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Bad, March 27, 2010

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This review is from: Return to Rocheworld (Paperback)

Too bad I can't review this book, since Amazon sent it to who-knows-where in Ohio and I never got it. Ohio... Arizona... I see the similarity.