Moon Flower

This is a fun read, but more of a critique of capitalism than a science fiction novel to be sure. Our main protagonist, Marc Shearer, is a young, idealistic young quantum physicist (like so many of Hogan's protagonists) merely getting by as a researcher at a university in California. Set in the mid......more

Moon Flower was Hogan's penultimate novel and doesn't seem as polished or detailed as his earlier works. It's a political space opera that champions the common (or perhaps Heinlein) man standing against corporate greed and ignorance. It's also a Utopian/Libertarian look at how capitalism could be be......more

Moon Flower (2008) 426 pages by James P. Hogan. Excellent. Great read on multiple levels. The back cover states that people have mysteriously gone missing on Cyrene and that Myles Callen has been sent there to find these people and figure out what is happening. Reading that you might come to the conc......more

A compelling and entertaining story; however, I found the writing technically flawed at times. There were numerous errors that a good editing effort would've fixed. I even came across Jerri spelled as Jerri and Jerry in the same paragraph. I enjoyed in Chapter 33, the sentence "The splendor of the A......more