Pstalemate

Extract: I read this book for the Grand Master Challenge on WWEnd. Lester del Rey was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1991. I also got it because it's the only book by del Rey in the entire Washington County Library System. They don't even have a collection of his short stories. So maybe I was going into this read feeling like I had no options. And the result was that I didn't really care for the book…