Alien Encounter
A Scientific Novel

This book is one of a series of "scientific novels" - science fiction written by working scientists. Like other books in this series, the bulk of the book is the novel and the last 5% or so is an explanation of the science used in the book. After that comes a good bibliography. The novel is decent.......more

Not so well written and different from the other books (that I have read so far) in the Springer Science & Fiction series, the science isn't that believable as well.......more

Od knihy, ktorú som si kúpil cez Humble Bundle, som toho veľa neočakával a ako taká ma príjemne prekvapila. Ide už o druhú sci-fi knihu písanú vedcom, čo som čítal a s oboma som bol nadmieru spokojný. Áno bestsellerový autor, by pravdepodobne aj túto knihu dokázal napísať miestami s lepšími dialógmi......more

The ideas and plot are interesting and compelled me to at least skim my way through the novel. The dialogue is extremely clunky, perhaps because the author originates from Germany and may not be a native English speaker. Parts of the writing read like a translation, and other parts suffer from poor......more

This would have been much more fun if the back half wasn't riddled with typos.......more