Agreed, it's a good book -- and maybe we can help him with his legal expenses. As you said, the hard science in it is very good. And I'd add that it's done with

Agreed, it's a good book -- and maybe we can help him with his legal expenses. As you said, the hard science in it is very good. And I'd add that it's done with a lot of imagination: he covers a lot of novel ground (pun intended). I'd also recommend his book Starfish, which shows just as much imagination and almost as much hard science. However, by the second book in that trilogy (Maelstrom) there was a lot of political agenda showing through. That's not necessarily bad, but since I happen to disagree with his agenda, and I was reading it purely for pleasure, I was disinclined to finish that book or the next.