The Robinson family embarks on a new adventure when they leave a crowded Earth for a new planet but gets more than they bargained for when evil Dr. Zachary Smith stows away on their ship, including tectonic storms, aliens, and an alternate time-stream connected to Earth's future. Simultaneous. Movie tie-in.
From Library Journal
In the trend toward resurrecting television shows from the 1960s and 1970s, Lost In Space is a welcome addition. This version, based on the new feature film, contains more suspense, violence, action, technology, gadgetry, and weaponry, more ecological, political, and family values, and, of course, more sex than we're used to in the old reruns. The story, radically enhanced, begins with the Robinson family taking off into space on a humanitarian mission to find a new world, as Earth is soon to be inhabitable. But things go awry early in the voyage when the evil stowaway-turned-prisoner Dr. Smith sabotages the ship and the famous "Danger, Will Robinson" robot. From this point forward, the similarities between the old series and the new adaptation are abandoned. Their travel adventures include an encounter with deadly alien monsters, a brush with time-displacement where they meet their future selves, and a crash landing in such detail that it can almost be visualized. Mimi RogersAwho plays Maureen Robinson in the filmAimmediately captures the listener's attention with a reading that has energy, intensity, and an elegant, almost heroic vocal quality. More than oral interpretation, she gives a performance. Recommended for all sf collections.ACharlie Weiss, formerly with "Library Journal" Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Joan Vinge has been described as "one of the reigning queens of science fiction" and is renowned for creating lyrical human dreams in fascinatingly complex future settings. She has won the Hugo for her novel The Snow Queen. Vinge is the author of the bestselling Return of the Jedi Storybook, World's End, and Psion. Kirkus called her novel Catspaw, "an engrossing and satisfying read." The Summer Queen, a sequel to The Snow Queen, was published in 1991. She is currently writing two novels set in the Bronze Age. Dreamfall, which Publisher's Weekly called a "richly detailed and suspenseful sequel to Catspaw," was on the Locus 1996 Recommended Reading List.
From AudioFile
This is an undistinguished reading of an abridged version of a disappointing story by an otherwise well-regarded science fiction author. The main gripe of reviewers is that Vinge has injected dysfunctional family elements into the familial paradise of the insipid 1960's TV series. Narrator Mimi Rogers, who portrayed Maureen Robinson in the movie, reads smoothly enough but makes almost no attempt to distinguish the characters. Only the bad guy and the little boy are recognizable, the former by an unclassifiable accent and the latter by minor shrillness. What praise the movie garnered was for special effects, and there aren't any in this audio version. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Description:
The Robinson family embarks on a new adventure when they leave a crowded Earth for a new planet but gets more than they bargained for when evil Dr. Zachary Smith stows away on their ship, including tectonic storms, aliens, and an alternate time-stream connected to Earth's future. Simultaneous. Movie tie-in.
From Library Journal
In the trend toward resurrecting television shows from the 1960s and 1970s, Lost In Space is a welcome addition. This version, based on the new feature film, contains more suspense, violence, action, technology, gadgetry, and weaponry, more ecological, political, and family values, and, of course, more sex than we're used to in the old reruns. The story, radically enhanced, begins with the Robinson family taking off into space on a humanitarian mission to find a new world, as Earth is soon to be inhabitable. But things go awry early in the voyage when the evil stowaway-turned-prisoner Dr. Smith sabotages the ship and the famous "Danger, Will Robinson" robot. From this point forward, the similarities between the old series and the new adaptation are abandoned. Their travel adventures include an encounter with deadly alien monsters, a brush with time-displacement where they meet their future selves, and a crash landing in such detail that it can almost be visualized. Mimi RogersAwho plays Maureen Robinson in the filmAimmediately captures the listener's attention with a reading that has energy, intensity, and an elegant, almost heroic vocal quality. More than oral interpretation, she gives a performance. Recommended for all sf collections.ACharlie Weiss, formerly with "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Joan Vinge has been described as "one of the reigning queens of science fiction" and is renowned for creating lyrical human dreams in fascinatingly complex future settings. She has won the Hugo for her novel The Snow Queen. Vinge is the author of the bestselling Return of the Jedi Storybook, World's End, and Psion. Kirkus called her novel Catspaw, "an engrossing and satisfying read." The Summer Queen, a sequel to The Snow Queen, was published in 1991. She is currently writing two novels set in the Bronze Age. Dreamfall, which Publisher's Weekly called a "richly detailed and suspenseful sequel to Catspaw," was on the Locus 1996 Recommended Reading List.
From AudioFile
This is an undistinguished reading of an abridged version of a disappointing story by an otherwise well-regarded science fiction author. The main gripe of reviewers is that Vinge has injected dysfunctional family elements into the familial paradise of the insipid 1960's TV series. Narrator Mimi Rogers, who portrayed Maureen Robinson in the movie, reads smoothly enough but makes almost no attempt to distinguish the characters. Only the bad guy and the little boy are recognizable, the former by an unclassifiable accent and the latter by minor shrillness. What praise the movie garnered was for special effects, and there aren't any in this audio version. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine