Honest! 6

These beings are mobile plants and this aspect is made in this novel where the characterization is good and where the descriptions are quite suggestive.
These mobile plants are very smart and persuasive. It is nevertheless quite anthropomorphic (too miserable by my favorite criteria for thematic of the contact) in terms of their psychology and the history of their civilization.

The author manages to really make this tangible universe and the reader a good time in contact with this friendly species endangered by a geo cruiser that will hit their world with near certainty.

It's a race against time in which the reader is projected, according to a tempo that will accelerate the sandstone time and times that this civilization through the dense description.

The threat gradually becomes clearer over a long historical period where we see these plants build a civilization, discover the threat.
Discover science also, and ultimately attempt to avert the end of this world that is theirs or at least to save their species.

However, in terms of this historical evolution, the fact is that it is a barely layer extrapolated the history of Europe.
Similarly mentalities and the foundations of their symbolic and scientific thought, have nothing very special or original.

Which is well developed, is the anatomy of these beings and goods characterized astronomical environment of their solar system that is operated and designed by the author to perfection.

So it can be quite disappointing, although it remains unquestionably a very enjoyable and captivating reading, because it is not inventive or rather strange perspective mentalities and historical evolution.

BRIEF: to have a good time no more, but a pretty good time of world opera no doubts.
If it was a very personal requirements of credibility and originality in treating the contact theme, I would wholeheartedly recommend this novel because it is still a good distraction.

If this is to pass the time pleasantly and go to another place which have sufficient presence this text will do because if not its few shortcomings FEW remains very outgoing to explore despite the time that has elapsed since its publication.

Text that has not aged at all, it's a John Bruner anyway, even if he feeds the aim of distracting ..