Andre Norton - Star Man's Son - 7

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Star Man’s Son

Since magicfan recommended her so much, I've been looking out boos by Andre Norton, and I found this in my local library.

I did enjoy the story line, and the imaginary future was well painted, but I had real trouble gettting past the bad science. I don't have problems with people taking liberties with scientific causality (Anne McCaffery's genmod dragons, for example, or Isobelle Carmody's mutant mental powers), but Andre Norton's willingness to mutate animals to giant size and give them highish level intellects intellects, give humanity an inherited resistance/immunity to radiation, and have no bad mutations visible at all, all in the space of three hundred years stretches even my most willing suspension of disbelief.

It was a good story, but I just couldn't get past the glaring errors in the science to really gel with it. However, the other book of hers I've read so far are much less problematic, and I have high hopes of her other books.

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