Yes, Forward does not have characters, in terms of agents with motivations and opinions. They are engineering constraints. If you can treat these books as some

Yes, Forward does not have characters, in terms of agents with motivations and opinions. They are engineering constraints. If you can treat these books as something like Socratic dialogue, or Medieval theatre, then you can get a feel for Forward's facility with gravitational dynamics. Quadrupole radiation. Relativistic mechanics.