The Ceres Solution

This is my favourite book by Bob Shaw, though I haven't read many of his. It's an original and ingenious concept and plot, with a most unusual crippled and bad-tempered hero who comes over as real.

It also contains the Mollanians, who are human but somewhat different from us. They're less real to me, I don't find them entirely convincing; but I suppose it would be hard to describe such people convincingly.

Not one of the great big novels of sf, it's an enjoyable short novel that takes you briskly through the story. I find it refreshingly unusual and good to have in my collection; the characters are flawed as people normally are, but some of them are quite likeable.