A review by scheu
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

5.0

I hope that one day KSR merits a SFWA Grandmaster award. He really "gets" science, and it's reflected in nearly all of his work. His latest novel, although SF, serves more as a biography of Galileo Galilei and a view of his position as the first modern scientist. I got much more detail about Galileo from this book than from (for instance) Koestler's The Sleepwalkers - not to say that the latter isn't a great book, of course!