A review by loomisknows
Sundiver by David Brin

4.0

Sundiver is a strange book. There is a definite male voice in it and it is a product of its time period. That wasn't a bad thing, but in more than a few instances it was very weird for me as a female reader. There were just certain things that creeped me out a little, like the protagonist getting knocked out and as he wakes up knowing a woman is there because he can smell her. The female characters are just a bit weird, they oscillate between competent and damselling. For a lot of the book, I felt like there must have been a book before I had missed because it references an event throughout that never actually gets explored.

All that said, it was interesting and the alien designs are interesting. One of them is basically sentient broccoli. I also think this kind of sci-fi is from a nostalgic period where even if it is a little jank here and there it has a kinda hope and ethos that is hard for modern writers to have 40 years later.