WHITE LIGHT
William Barton and Michael Capobianco
Avon Eos 1999
PB 343 pgs
ISBN 0-380-79516-7

A small group of refugees from a dying Earth jump around through space,
coming into contact with alien cultures, all the while trying to come to
grips with their own past and present relationships (predominantly sexual).

I had trouble finishing this story and in all fairness to the authors it is
probably more due to my tastes than their abilities. I've never been keen on
"hard" SF (stories that tend to be heavily plot driven by technical data and
punctuated by long sequences of "wonder" as the characters see one amazing
alien world/artifact/site after another) being drawn more to character
oriented stories and I found our group of intrepid travelers here to be
very one dimensional: so caught up with who was fornicating with who, as to
be down right humorous. Add in the heavy quantum physics and the bizarre
metaphysics of the latter portion of the book, and man was I lost!! It felt
like reading The Young and the Restless meet Arthur C. Clarke.

I know there are huge throngs of "hard" SF fans out there, and perhaps for
them this would be a great read. But for myself it was not.