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 Mindbridge - Joe Haldeman
Newest Review: ... although it is soon realised that the effect decreases with each person to touch the creature … another trait being, ... more  ... unfortunately, that the first person to touch a Bridge dies shortly afterwards. When strange gravity signals are discovered emanating from a distant location at the very boundaries of the LMT’s range, a team is sent to investigate. What they find at Achernar is another intelligent life-form, one that is in fact more advanced than mankind. The first encounter proves disastrous, and the aliens are assumed to be deliberately hostile, something which takes on an entirely new meaning when the strange gravity distorti...more |
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Mindbridge - Joe Haldeman: His fear of Death amuses me. (851 words)
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Following on from his multiple award-winning debut novel ‘The Forever War’, Joe Haldeman wrote this, an immensely enjoyable pulp sf classic which looks at both telepathy and humankind’s first contact with another species, one much more advanced than our own. The Levant-Meyer Translation (LMT) is the product of an incredibly fortuitous scientific accident. It allows people to be instantaneously moved vast distances, with the proviso that they must return back to their point of origin after a set time (once again, instantaneously moving the vast distances involved) and that any matter they bring back with them from the place they visited will ... Read the complete review
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