The Last Theorem (Hardcover) by Arthur Charles Clarke, Frederik Pohl

from burnit99

A pretty good science-fiction story by two masters, with ideas that Clarke has touched on in other books, such as a space elevator, sailboats in space powered by solar winds, and nearly omniscient and omnipotent alien races sending emissaries to Earth to check up on these strange and violent imag...

from Neale

Another great book - his last. If you're an ACC fan you'll love this. I haven't read any F Pohl - but they are the same vintage - so i'm nor sure of his impact on the book - it seemed very ACC to me. Based in Sri Lanka - his home - the story brings together a lot of sci fi theories. Its an easy a...

from scififan42

A solid work of mainstream fiction disguised by an alien invasion McGuffin.

from pierthinker

What has happened to science fiction? The mainstay of my teenage reading, I marvelled at the soaring intellects that showed how technology and science can make us gods or devils. I travelled in a universe (in many universes!) where to be alive was often a multiple-choice question and where the hu...

from pierthinker

What has happened to science fiction? The mainstay of my teenage reading, I marvelled at the soaring intellects that showed how technology and science can make us gods or devils. I travelled in a universe (in many universes!) where to be alive was often a multiple-choice question and where the hu...