Lost in Space: The Novelization - Hardcover

Vinge, Joan D.; Akiva Goldsman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061050490 ISBN 13: 9780061050497

Publisher: Harper Prism, 1998

Synopsis

The Robinson family embarks on a new adventure when they leave a crowded and decaying Earth for a new planet, but they get more than they bargained for when the evil Dr. Zachary Smith stows away on their ship

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Vinge has been described as "one of the reigning queens of science fiction" and is renowned for creating lyrical human dreams in fascinatingly complex future settings. She has won the Hugo for her novel The Snow Queen. Vinge is the author of the bestselling Return of the Jedi Storybook, World's End, and Psion, Kirkus called her novel Catspaw, "an engrossing and satisfying read." The Summer Queen, a sequel to The Snow Queen, was published in 1991. She is currently writing two novels set in the Bronze Age. Dreamfall, which Publisher's Weekly called a "richly detailed and suspenseful sequel to Catspaw," was on the Locus 1996 Recommended Reading List.

From AudioFile:

This is an undistinguished reading of an abridged version of a disappointing story by an otherwise well-regarded science fiction author. The main gripe of reviewers is that Vinge has injected dysfunctional family elements into the familial paradise of the insipid 1960's TV series. Narrator Mimi Rogers, who portrayed Maureen Robinson in the movie, reads smoothly enough but makes almost no attempt to distinguish the characters. Only the bad guy and the little boy are recognizable, the former by an unclassifiable accent and the latter by minor shrillness. What praise the movie garnered was for special effects, and there aren't any in this audio version. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Prism
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0061050490
• ISBN 13: 9780061050497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179