Sundiver

The sun. It's not really a place I think about when I think of other places in space that might have life. This novel is all about the possibility of life on the sun. I think it's pretty clear that the author David Brin knows a lot of science, and I think he's better at writing the science than characters. The only aspect of this book that fellflat was in the characterization. But I love science and I love aliens, so those aspects kept the book great for me.

If one included the ions and electrons that forever stream out into space in the solar wind – to cause auroras on Earth and to shape the plasma tails of comets – one might say that there was no real boundary to the sun. It truly reaches out to touch the other stars.