Book details of 'Rogue Star'

Title	Rogue Star
Author(s)	Michael F. Flynn
ISBN	0312861362
Language	English
Published	April 1998
Publisher	Tor Books

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
While "Rogue Star" is an enjoyable enough, as a run of the mill science fiction story, it doesn't have anything of the spark that "Firestar" (see reviews) started out with. "Rogue Star" plods along with the pedestrian soap opera plotting that characterized the last part of the first book in the series. (Oh, and there will be a series, or at least a trilogy. The ending is even clearer on that point than was "Firestar." And there are way more loose ends.) As with "Firestar," great care has been taken with orbital dynamics. Environmental issues, and even the complexity of social activism, are handled quite well. A troubleshooting session on a computerized system is also done quite nicely, although the progress is quite excessively optimistic. (Well, it would have to be. A *real* troubleshooting session would have all the dramatic impact of drying paint.) Although our unrealistic lone wolf "hacker" is still in evidence, and, indeed provides material central to the plot, his exploits are in the background, and so the fantastic aspects are not quite as intrusive. Computers, and particularly communications, are still a weak point, however. There is no apparent understanding of bandwidth issues: if you can send data at all, you can send real time video. I would not want to live in the sea of microwaves that would be necessary to support a wireless communications system capable of handling full video feeds from what seems like every second person. There are other oddities, such as the capability to detect that you are being filmed, and the ability to erase everything on a camera's hard disk. (Hey, how about that! Videotape has some advantages after all.) We have upped the ante on laser power transmission very seriously here, and now begin to have some serious problems of physics, as well. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1999
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