Noninterference

Rating:
Summary: A good, solid read
Review: Turtledove's take on the "Prime Directive" philosophy is well worth reading. Good characters and an interesting story keep this book moving along.

Rating:
Summary: gets good at the end
Review: Turtledove's take on the "Prime Directive" philosophy is well worth reading. Good characters and an interesting story keep this book moving along.

Rating:
Summary: gets good at the end
Review: When I read this I kind of got a Foundation meets Star Trek TNG feel, although let it be known that this book was written a couple of years before the beginning of TNG. There's lots of politics, except you never really get to see the effects of interferance on Bilbeis 4. That's why the end is the most interesting. I don't know if Turtledove was trying, ut he has made the best case against noninterference that I have ever seen. Bilbeis 4 was advancing very quickly because of their progressive queen and was probably soon to join man among the stars. I mean how would you like it if you finally got to the stars and all the good planets were already taken? The best thing to do would be to help primitive planets.