From rec.arts.sf.reviews Thu Sep 9 16:10:04 1999 Path: news.ifm.liu.se!news.lth.se!feed2.news.luth.se!luth.se!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: "Aaron M. Renn" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews Subject: Review: White Light by William Barton and Michael Capobianco Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written Date: 08 Sep 1999 21:33:44 -0400 Organization: GNU's Not Unix! Lines: 32 Sender: wex@tinbergen.media.mit.edu Approved: wex@media.mit.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tinbergen.media.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: news.ifm.liu.se rec.arts.sf.reviews:2447 White Light by William Barton and Michael Capobianco Review Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron M. Renn Conclusion: Worth Reading This book is a strange one. Earth is dying after a nuclear war. A group of largely unlikeable characters goes on a space voyage looking for a habitable planet for humanity to migrate to. They arrive at a system with an alien stargate that sucks them to a system further from Earth than anyone has ever travelled. Then, well, I'm not sure what all happens, but it's a lot of strange stuff. Note that this book is loaded with profanity, sex, and graphic sex fantasies. I don't think that's a horrible thing in and of itself, but in this case I think it detracts from the story. If Barton and Capobianco had ditched the lame characters and the sex, and focused more on their relatively interesting ideas, I would have liked it a lot more. As it is, I thought this book was pretty average. %A Barton, William %A Capobianco, Michael %T White Light %I Avon %D 1999-08 (original publication 1998-10) %G ISBN 0-380-79516-7 %P 343 pp. %0 mass market paperback, US$6.99 Reviewed on 1999-08-31 -- Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/