![]() ![]() It is (to paraphrase someone else), exactly why literary awards/critics/readers look down on SF, and it is exactly why they are correct to do so. It is bringing nothing to SF that hasn’t been done a million times before, mostly in the 80s and 90s. I hated nearly every other character (none of whom get much in the way of personalities). It’s painfully America-centric/Anglophone-centric. I am not certain the author has ever observed human behaviour. ![]() ![]() It’s got some horrible stereotypes and lazy caricatures of several nationalities. It was so bad, it required me to subject myself to more of it just so that I could make clear to the world that I thought it was bad. It’s so bad, under other circumstances I would have DNFed it, but I explicitly chose to carry on reading a book I emphatically disliked, purely so that I could mark it as 1 star on Goodreads*. I know there’s normally a bit more entry into a blog post than that but that is the abiding question I have, now that I’ve finished this book. ![]()
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