The Gadget

Rating:
Summary: Star Thrower
Review: Zindel threw me off a little at the end by using the widely known "star thrower" story. Loren Eiseley's essay (upon which this starfish story is based) was not published until the late 1970s. I suppose that fictional young Stephen _could_ have made a similar observation and come to similar philosophical conclusions in the 1940s--similar to those of Eiseley's in the 1970s--but it seems a stretch. An anachronism that threw the rest of the book's accuracy into question for me.