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Return to Rocheworld (Mass Market Paperback)

by Forward (Author)
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The sequel to Rocheworld!

Return to Rocheworld is the first of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels that follow this one are: Ocean Under the Ice, Marooned on Eden, and Rescued from Paradise.

In Return to Rocheworld, the humans from Earth and their multiton jelly-blob alien friends, the "flouwen" from the ocean-covered lobe of the double-planet Rocheworld, fly to the desert-dry lobe of Rocheworld where they discover ancient ancestors of the flouwen, adapted to the harsh life on the dry lobe. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.



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Teamed up against a second aquatic race, the flouwen--the water-dwelling creatures found on a bizarre double-planet--and an expedition of humans find that these new creatures are as unfriendly as they are intelligent.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A vehicle for scientific speculation. Fascinating!, Dec 1 2000
By Carlos Cotta (Spain, Europe) - See all my reviews
This is the second title (out of five) in the Rocheworld Saga. The humans sent to Barnard's system discovered intelligent (in the most stringent sense of the word) life on Rocheworld, a weird double planet subject to complex dynamics and tidal forces. These aliens -the flouwen- are aquatic amoeba-like creatures living in the oceans of Eau, one of the lobes of the double planet. The flouwen are centuries ahead of us in Mathematics, but have no technology.

In this book, the flouwen are explored more in depth. We learn about their physiology and social structure. Using human technology, the flouwen get into space for the first time, and help the humans in their exploration of Roche, the second lobe of Rocheworld. Then, two longly-separated evolutionary branches meet again...

As with many other Forward's books, neither plot nor characterization are the strongest points in this novel. However, Forward manages once again to put together so much thought-provoking scientific speculation that makes you forget any other deficiencies.

Having read "Rocheworld" (aka "The Flight of the Dragonfly") before starting this novel is obviously recommended, but I guess one could even get into the story without it.

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