Reviews for Of Adam

The average rating for Of Adam based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-07 00:00:00 Robert Duncan Minor spoilers below, but not enough to hide the entire review. *********** When I first read this in high school, I enjoyed it immensely. I love hard sci-fi, the characters are complex, and there was a woman astronomy student who was making it to the top. Then I grew up to actually become a woman astronomer. Rereading this novel where I am in my life now, I find it disgusting it was that Bova's only woman character sleeps her way to the top - that is the only way she thinks of getting there, and it's the only way that others think she could get there. Read this if you are entirely ignorant of feminism (as I was when younger), or if you are a feminist who wants a look into the horrible past that could still be true (and sometimes is) if a few good women and men stopped fighting.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-04 00:00:00 John Pogan A pretty good first contact story. Originally published in 1981 the story brings back memories of Cold War tensions between the USSR and USA. Sometimes these seem quaint, sometimes they seem surprisingly current. Part of a trilogy, but good enough on its own. Many of the themes are repeated even in more modern books like John Sandford and Ctein's 2015 Saturn Run. One of the overall minuses is a certain period-ness of the characters that can be grating. And the fact people keep begging astronauts to NOT go into space gets tedious.