re colin kapp and "lambda one" -- yeah, i had this in mind at one point but its first eight pages is doggedly hyper-clumsy exposition (person a: "so, person b, remind me again of the nature of yr work and the state of yr marriage and how exactly the bogus science we will bve macking on this story works again"), whereas the donald malcolm at least mentions the doughnut star on like page one!
the follow-up to "lambda one" = "the imagination trap" is also excellent once it gets going, but its exposition (largely rekapping hoho the plot of "lambda one" is even clumsier: viz person A embrakrs on vast paragraph covering everything, capp reliaes this is a bit much and breaks it up via the device of turning it into TWO paragraphs w.person B saying "go on" in the middle!
these two stories and the tau-space stuff became a novel -- "the transfinite man' -- but i never read it
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link