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From: lionel%eludom.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Steve Lionel)

I've enjoyed Piers Anthony's Xanth books, his Cluster trilogy (with a
related book Viscous Circle), the Blue Adept/Split Infinity/Juxtaposition
trilogy, etc., but there's one Anthony novel that surpasses all of these.
It is the first novel of his I ever read, and it was maybe 10 years before
I saw another.  The title is Macroscope and it is awesome.

Macroscope is about a device called a macroscope, naturally, that is 
like a telescope except that it sees "macrons", particles that travel
faster than light.  It is discovered that someone is broadcasting a
macronic signal that kills if you watch it.  The story relates the efforts
to solve the secret of the signal, what and who is behind it.  I don't want
to say more for fear of spoiling it, but it is a far more "significant"
piece of work than any of Anthony's I've seen since.  I wish he'd do another
one as good.
					Steve Lionel