Vector Analysis [Paperback]

Jack C. Haldeman II (Author), Norman Adams (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

Quarantined by a dream-disease from beyond the stars

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley Books; paperback / softback edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425042758
• ISBN-13: 978-0425042755
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,679,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exciting piece of hard science fiction, I loved it!, October 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vector Analysis (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of my favorite sci-fi novels, a classic! It has an interesting twist that was ahead of it's time: A deadly disease that could threaten earth! I reccomend this to anyone who likes Asimov or Clark. Jack's style reminds me of the best from those two. I can't believe it isn't in print! It is more relevant today in the era of Aids and Ebola than when it was first published. Do yourself a favor - go find a used book store and get yourself a copy, you won't regret it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned sci-fi, March 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Vector Analysis (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked this up on a lark in a used book store the other day and I got a lot more than my moneys worth out it!

From the back cover:

"The strangest and deadliest creatures in the universe are quarantined together on the alien biology station Delta III - and exobiologist Rob McGegor is the deadliest of them all. For to find the antitoxin that can save them from disaster, he must infect the woman he loves with the dream plague from beyond the stars."

Vector Analysis is a good old fashioned sci-fi thriller and I tell you it's a lot of fun to read. I expected it would feel dated, but that wasn't the case. I suppose looking back it was ahead of its time. The novel is well balanced by a good story and good science (I read somewhere that the author was a microbiologist by trade). There is a nice mixed of drama and humor thrown in. I highly recommend it!

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JACK, not joe HALDEMAN as a writer., March 6, 2002

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Lloyd A. Mcdaniel (Daytona Beach, Fl United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vector Analysis (Mass Market Paperback)

January 1st, 2002, this world lost one of it's great spirits and damn fine writers.

Jack was the kind of person that could hold a room full of S-F fans in thrall speaking quietly and slowly.

A Storyteller, and this book is arguably his finest.

A medical story, but not really, a Alien story, but not really, a space opera, but not really... a really good story?? REALLY!

You won't get anymore from this source, so you'd best get this one and enjoy it..

and Jack, if you're out there in the ether somewhere, I hope that car with the girls, the cases of beer, and the cartons of luckies found you...

Try "the Fall of Winter" as well. folks.. GOOD stuff.