Technofiction Review of Tips For Tailoring Spacetime Fabric - Volume 1

The first story in Tips, a typical one, "Mommy, Why Am I Here?", talks about how mankind will first engage in exploring alien cultures on distant star systems. The fastest and cheapest way to send a human to a distant star system that has intelligent life is not to send a starship, but to send information using radio waves. We will send DNA codes to distant star systems long before we send starships. But it takes more than just sending DNA information to make a good star system explorer, and that's the twist that makes the story interesting.Another story, "Where Does the 500 pound Alien Sleep?", tells the story of a human starship finding a planet orbiting a distant sun with an alien life form that is really just too creepy for humans to deal with. They cut bait... well they try to, and that's when the robots get involved!White also writes about power armor. He was inspired by Heinlein's Starship Troopers book and deeply disappointed in the movie adaptation, so he wrote his o
wn version of the power armor story. In "The ticket out" he shows how really versatile power armor can be by having five mercenaries get hung out to dry when the invasion they are part of goes sour and their fleet pulls out. Whoops!White's stories in this book all deal with interesting science issues in a good story telling way. I really like the internal consistency of these stories -- people (and aliens!) are all doing what they do for good reasons -- no one does things just to follow some space opera story formula.This volume, Volume One, is about stories in space. Volume Two is about stories on Earth.

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