The Wooden Spaceships [Hardcover]

Bob Shaw (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 294 pages
• Publisher: Baen; First Edition edition (July 15, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671654195
• ISBN-13: 978-0671654191
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,706,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and intriguing..but read the first book first!, October 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wooden Spaceships (Hardcover)

Just to set things straight- "The Wooden Spaceships" is the 2nd in a trilogy all of which were indeed published in the late 1980s. The first volume is "The Ragged Astronauts" which introduces Toller, his planet Land and the growing problem that leads to the great migration to Overland. The 3rd book is "The Fugitive Worlds" whose main character is one of Toller's descendants returning to see what has become of Land and Overland.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Compelling Vision of an Alien World, November 22, 2003

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Warren BONES (Sydney) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wooden Spaceships (Paperback)

What seems to have been lost in the previous reviews is any kind of synopsis. These three books give a detailed insight into a finely wrought alien world with deadly floating plants, timber harder than steel and the fantastic notion of being able to loft a balloon to the LaGrange point between two intertwined planets and launch primitive ships into space. Brilliant and beautifully realized. An awesome trilogy that deserves far greater recognition, as does its sadly deceased author.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Primitive men travel between two closely orbiting planets., May 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wooden Spaceships (Hardcover)

A diamond in the rough. Two planets are in such a close orbit that their atmospheres touch and men in "wooden spaceships" travel from one planet to the other. Supposed to be the first in a series of three books. The second was published as "Ragged Astronauts". This reviewer never found the third book in the series