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kewpiemayo's review
3.0
not bad at all. exactly what you would expect from 80s sci-fi (<has no idea of what the 80s were like). fun linguistic things iirc
tome15's review
2.0
This one defines the word lugubrious. It wants to seem old-fashioned, but it ends up just being old-fashioned.
mw2k's review
2.0
One for the deep and meaningful crowd. A good exposition of aliens, and the author does his aliens better than 95% of SF but...the whole thing reads as a lecture or a documentary. Where's the beef? Incredibly hard going book at times too.
lordofthemoon's review
4.0
This was a great book of first contact between a humanity well versed in first contact with primitive races and their first ultra-advanced alien race. The aliens ask for the planet's leading contact linguist -- Marius Thorndyke -- by name and he willingly goes to their world to learn about them and their mysterious society.
The book is in the form of Thorndyke's diary entries, with commentary by a fellow linguist who came with him and it worked well. The aliens were strange enough to deserve the name and the first contact situation worked very well. Well worth reading.
The book is in the form of Thorndyke's diary entries, with commentary by a fellow linguist who came with him and it worked well. The aliens were strange enough to deserve the name and the first contact situation worked very well. Well worth reading.
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