This is a book I could see turned into a movie. And it would work with or without the parallel world tenet that potassium-argon radioactive dating had been discredited. And I say that it would make a good movie in that it read well and I could see the movie kind of action in my head, and yet it didn't seem like a novelization of a script. I will certainly look for other works by Kosmatka.
The only thign that really bothered me was one possible villain who seems to disappear. In the movie in my head, I was totally expecting him to jump out near the end.
The only thign that really bothered me was one possible villain who seems to disappear. In the movie in my head, I was totally expecting him to jump out near the end.
In the intervening days, I have read Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington's The Goliath Stone. And I tore through this one. It read fast even for a Niven book. I think it could have easily been twice as long. The reader follows four people in various levels, and the story is fun, but I did find myself wishing for more story. It moved fast and was fun, but I wished it could have had the intensity of Footfall or Lucifer's Hammer.
Now I'm on to Niven and Gregory Benford's Bowl of Heaven which already has overtones of Ringworld and Rendezvous with Rama. It does have a "thicker" feel to the story, but is still intriguing already.
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