The Push is an FTL drive technology which Hansen, along with friends, used to found an independent colony on the planet Reith. Hanson is a stereotypical 'hero', full of wise-cracks, rich beyond belief and able to solve any problem. He is called back to Reith, as a native species there, the Rockers, hitherto hunted by Hansen and others as animals, seem to have become intellgent and a team of government investigators are on their way to uncover this crime...Entertaining but unadventurous. ( )

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This is an excellent hard sf novella, combining a couple of plot elements from Zelazny's "This Moment of the Storm" and GRRM's "Sandkings"; the narrator has spent decades fleeing his own past, and then finds it catching up with him, as the dumb aliens on the planet he helped colonise turn out not to be so dumb after all. The resolution of the hero's emotional and moral predicament is both imaginative and satisfying. ( )