How much do we remember about Poul Anderson's The Avatar?
It has an Andersonian hero whose name I forget.
It has Andersonian villains: politicians who try to halt interstellar travel or delay it indefinitely because its consequences will be disruptive! (In other words, it will challenge their social control.)
Interstellar travel and exploration are in STL ships but by rotating around Tipler machines. (Is this FTL or not?)
The T-machines have been constructed and deployed by one intelligent species but are used by others.
There really is an Elder Race which the human explorers meet near the monobloc at the start of another universe.
There are interesting space-time jumps to places and times limited only by the author's imagination.
There is intelligence on a neutron star.
This is a single long stand-alone novel, another part of Anderson's imagiverse.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember those politicians in THE AVATAR and I didn't like them, even if some were sincere in opposing mankind moving out into the galaxy. My view is that, when possible, one way to solving problems is by making them irrelevant, by a combination of social/technological changes. But that would mean some long established gov's might fall, the ones unable to adapt.
Ad astra! Sean
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