Talk:Sundiver

Longer summary needed
This plot summary is severely lacking.--68.44.28.241 (talk) 21:29, March 3, 2007
 * Agreed. It was published in 1980. Presumably the need to avoid spoilers is long past.--Auric (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 19:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

As the only result of this "coyright[sic] breach" would be to favourably advertise the book and its author to the whole world, I don't think anyone is going to be really upset about it, except perhaps you. Why not rain on someone else's parade? Myles325a (talk) 01:35, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Short story with similar sun exploration theme
Moving right along now, I seem to rem a short sf story (golden age, 1950s I think) in which a team of intrepid astronauts do in fact go to the sun, in a craft of a kind known as “sunskimmers” (I think – I read this a long time ago). The craft design was ingenious, though it wouldn’t really work. First, to counteract the enormous heat, they had pumps putting out a continual intense spray of liquid hydrogen (or some such) down the sides of ship, continually draining off the heat. Neat, huh? Well, if you think that’s neato, then listen to what they used to counteract the gravity. They had a huge cyclotron above their heads in the ship. This massive particle accelerator could speed them up so fast, they became massive gravitational objects in their own right. And this cancelled out the gravity of the sun. In reality, it would probably mean that the crew would have their top halves pasted to the cyclotron, and their bottom halves to the deck. The purpose of the mission was to subtly alter some “vectors” or such (vectors are the term to use when you don’t know what you are talking about) in the maelstrom of the sun, in order to change the weather on Earth for a special reason. (Shades of Sunshine). And it does. In the final scene, an old and dying scientist, waiting to see it rain just one more time on his ranch, is granted his wish when a SINGLE cloud comes out of nowhere, and rains down right on his small bed of petunias. Now that makes you want to get the old hanky out, doesn’t it guys? But what was the story, and does it have a relationship to this one? If no one knows, I’ll move this note to the Research Desk, as it prob shouldn’t be here anyway. Myles325a (talk) 04:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Commentary on reviews
I saw that one of the "negative" reviews commented that this novel reads more like a murder mystery than a science fiction novel. Well, yes -- that's what the author wanted. He has said that it IS a murder mystery, under the guise of science fiction. Perhaps this point can be mentioned as a response to that "negative review."

Note: before anyone accuses me of not really knowing what the author's intent was, I can say that I do know simply because he told me so himself. He's an old friend of mine, I knew him before this book (his first release) was published.

76.93.184.48 (talk) 00:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)