Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #621430 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09-18
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
Ten stories in one volume. These stories explore the chamber of whispers, where voices of the past haunt the living, follow a native American girl on her journey along the river of stars, and travel to a solar system that defies the laws of physics.

Customer Reviews

One 'wonders' why they bothered...
The first of Virgin's `Decalog' series to have almost no Doctor Who connection, #5 is a loosely connected bunch of stock Sci-fi stories, as the title suggests, all based around the theme of the wonders of the Universe as seen through the eyes of an assortment of humans and aliens.
The first story deals with Yuri Gagarin's first foray into space and the suggestion that he may have seen more there than was ever reported back on Earth...next up is the tale of an alien world and its civil war, where some kind of political allegory is being presented, I'm just not sure what! The third chapter is a love-story that ends ambiguously and the fourth is about a painting that spells death for the artist who creates it. Sometime Doctor Who companion Bernice Summerfield crops up in `The Judgement of Solomon' alongside an Eighth Century Robot, whilst `The Milk of Human Kindness' has definitely gone sour in story six. The remaining stories concern a universal library, a lethal sculpture, a `Dome of Whispers' and a river that is slowly destroying the universe...
Overall the stories in this anthology are passable but nothing really stands out and its authors seem to be fulfilling some kind of contractual obligation, so nondescript are the characters and situations.