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"Sundiver" has made me resolve not to read any more Science Fiction that is older than I am. It has charming elements: a voyage to the sun, vivid descriptions of plausible scientific advancements, and a clever whodunnit murder mystery. While the physics and engineering of the sunship are well described the 1980 imagining of other future tech is amusingly quaint. For instance, there is nothing resembling a cell phones in this future world, and wireless computers in general are absent. I could have loved this book, if not for the characters. The main character is a scientific researcher who has worked on raising chimpanzees and dolphins to human intelligence. He is also a tall, dark, handsome, incredibly fit, combat-ready, crack shot, pickpocket, detective. When the love of his life died tragically he sealed away the adventerous troublemaking side of himself, but the dark side of his split personality soon becomes his only hope of solving the mystery. The cliche is a bit painful.
Then there's the beatiful young ship captain who flirts with the protagonist, and what do you know later on she breaks down crying into Mr. Protagonist's shoulder and she just wants to have his babies. I disapproved strongly of this character, and I thought her relationship with the protagonist was unjustified, uninteresting, and gratuitious.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone unless they're specifically interested in the history and development of the Sci-Fi genre.
Then there's the beatiful young ship captain who flirts with the protagonist, and what do you know later on she breaks down crying into Mr. Protagonist's shoulder and she just wants to have his babies. I disapproved strongly of this character, and I thought her relationship with the protagonist was unjustified, uninteresting, and gratuitious.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone unless they're specifically interested in the history and development of the Sci-Fi genre.