Reviewer to the Stars
Nov. 10th, 2009 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
I read Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson.
Here's my short synopsis:
"Hey, you know what's awesome? Capitalistic greed! You know what sucks? Altruism."
It's really a set of Shelock Holmes-like mysteries in logic and deduction. Only Sherlock Holmes is really really into Ayn Rand. Which is too bad because the puzzles are actually kind of fun, but all the time it's "only by ruthlessly persuing our own self-interest do we prosper as a whole!". I'm vaguely curious as to whether Mr. Anderson was pulling a Steven Colbert style parody, but apparently he was big into it.
So...not real interested in continuing to find more stories about interstellar space merchant Nicholas van Rijn.
later
Tom
I read Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson.
Here's my short synopsis:
"Hey, you know what's awesome? Capitalistic greed! You know what sucks? Altruism."
It's really a set of Shelock Holmes-like mysteries in logic and deduction. Only Sherlock Holmes is really really into Ayn Rand. Which is too bad because the puzzles are actually kind of fun, but all the time it's "only by ruthlessly persuing our own self-interest do we prosper as a whole!". I'm vaguely curious as to whether Mr. Anderson was pulling a Steven Colbert style parody, but apparently he was big into it.
So...not real interested in continuing to find more stories about interstellar space merchant Nicholas van Rijn.
later
Tom
