Why did Clarke and Pohl write this book? Because they could? I have not read any Pohl before and have, of course, read much Clarke and I doubt that this slightly faltering story is truly in either of their established styles. Before I go too far I should say I did, on balance, enjoy the book but, on critical examination, one wonders what holds it all together. It is apparently a vehicle for Pohl to display his inevitable mathematical knowledge and for Clarke to expound some ideas already documented elsewhere (Skyhook/Space Elevator; solar racing (with the same outcome)).
However, even as it reaches its rather open ending - it is not a conclusion - it remains a tale of hope for the human race, one in which we don't do everything badly. It is a bit much however, to imagine that we might ever develop suffciently to take over from the Grand Galactics.
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