FEATURED AUTHOR - Lloyd Lofthouse is a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran, who worked as a maître d’ in a 15 million dollar nightclub for a few years. He also taught English literature in the public schools for most of 30 years where he explored Romeo and Juliet with thousands of high school students.
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Has some interesting twists right from the beginning. The ending is a little convenient, but it was a fresh journey getting there.
The intellectual joy of being "thrown in the deep end" and having to figure out an alien environment is delicious.
There is some commentary on the obvious solution to increasing population and decreasing farmland: build cities underground! By the end, most is made clear, especially with respect to the title. But it leaves some important things to the imagination.
Remember that, "Learning occurs at the edge of knowledge." The Answerer can not "leap" you forward over what you don't know. And it can't help you "unlearn" incorrect assumptions. The Answerer even appears differently to each species that approaches it.
Very entertaining and thought-provoking. I recommend it.
Interesting premise about attempting to translate the characters found on a non-terrestrial sphere.
But it seems completely unrelated to a circular time system, as mentioned in the description (above).
Doesn't take too long to read, but entirely unfruitful, IMHO.