The science (or specifically Astronomy) in Bill Napier’s novels is convincing and authentic because he is, in fact, an astronomer, but the science is perhaps the best part of his novel Nemesis [ISBN 0 7472 5993 3]. The plot has several double blinds, which is quite clever, but doesn’t convince as much as it should. The narrative is exciting and quite pacy, though the characterisations and dialogue I found not particularly lively, though scientists could well be as lacklustre as this and talk all the time in mathematical speak. They could well do that.
The science (or specifically Astronomy) in Bill Napier’s novels is convincing and authentic because he is, in fact, an astronomer, but the science is perhaps the best part of his novel Nemesis [ISBN 0 7472 5993 3]. The plot has several double blinds, which is quite clever, but doesn’t convince as much as it should. The narrative is exciting and quite pacy, though the characterisations and dialogue I found not particularly lively, though scientists could well be as lacklustre as this and talk all the time in mathematical speak. They could well do that.
Oliver Webb, Asteroid expert, is snatched from a snowy mountainside in Scotland a whizzed over to America along with a multi-national team brought together for a major disaster. It appears that the Russians have deflected an asteroid into a collision course with the USA, and this team has 5 days to find the asteroid amongst all the millions of space debris and then stop it (not much pressure then). Oliver has been studying an obscure 17th C manuscript which has supposed to have predicted the course of the asteroid, but all the copies but one appear to have been stolen. Then one of the team is found dead in mysterious circumstances – so what is happening here ?
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