Starfire (Paul Preuss novel)

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Author Paul Preuss
Cover artist Vincent DiFate
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date
February 1988 (hardcover), May 15, 1989 (paperback)
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages310 (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN 0-312-93056-9 (first edition, hardcover)

Starfire is a science fiction novel by author Paul Preuss. First published in February 1988, [1] it is about a group of NASA astronauts on a mission to an asteroid which is falling into the Sun.

According to the novel's afterword, Preuss and Gary Gutierrez, special visual effects supervisor on the films The Right Stuff and Top Gun , first conceived the story as a realistic science fiction film. When they realized that the film would be too expensive to make, Preuss turned the story into a novel. [2] Preuss and Gutierrez share the book's copyright.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews commented, "Intriguing and satisfying problem-solving for about half... but even the most benign readers will be tempted to skip the old-hat plotting and elephantine stereotype-building that goes before." [3] Publishers Weekly said that "Preuss makes good use of his familiarity with both the innovators and bureaucrats of science... the characters never come alive and the workaday details of spaceflight seem humdrum." [4]

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References

  1. "Starfire by Paul Preuss". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  2. Preuss, Paul (1988). Starfire . Tor Books. p.  309. ISBN   0-312-93056-9.
  3. Kirkus Reviews , February 15, 1988, cited in "Starfire". East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  4. "Book Review: Starfire by Paul Preuss, Author". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved October 28, 2016.