Space Eater

by David Langford

Book Overview

Ken Jackin has defeated death forty-six times thanks to the extraordinary phenomenon called Anomalous Physics, but now he has his most difficult mission: stop the experiments on a runaway space... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671656198
• ISBN13: 9780671656195
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hard SF at its Best!

Langford had a long career as a professional physicist, and this shows in the convincing physics he puts on display in this fast-moving, thought-provoking tale. At the same time, he wears his expertise lightly: the reader is never stifled by the science, nor struggling to comprehend it. Very few authors get this balance right, but Langford does it perfectly ... and tells a rollicking good tale into the bargain. Highly recommended.

Surprisingly good easy readin' scifi

A surprisngly good read. I bought this as one of perhaps fifty scifi paperbacks at a used bookstore; it was good enough to make me go and look up what else he's written. (Rather a lot, it turns out.) Just good scifi.

A thought provoking book with a twist in the tail.

The idea of regeneration works well in this scenario. Forced to live, the two heroes of this novel are forced to carry out the wishes of the " mature " earth society. The earth, however, had not anticipated on them being many light years away....