..Book Reviews..

It is a trilogy, so maybe there's hope in the upcoming volumes, but I wasn't that impressed. It doesn't help that it's written in 1938 and his ideas of space travel are definitely on the fiction side. The whole idea of space being warm and full of sunlight is intriguing (Why isn't it bright and shiny on the International Space Station? I suppose it has to do with the lack of atmosphere, but still, it seems like the sun should appear just as large when you're orbiting earth as when you're on earth.), but certainly not true. I also couldn't get over the idea that the first manned space flight (well, technically the second) was two guys and a kidnapped third blasting off from the English countryside without anyone noticing.

As it got down to the end it felt like too much veiled theology. It wasn't really a story, it was an excuse to play with some theological and mythological ideas.