Title: Engaging start that spins into confusion
Product review: As usual, Brin's book starts out complex but terribly engaging, as we are introduced to several highly interesting characters. The middle portion is also excellent as a fascinating story line is brought into play which ties us back to the original Uplift trilogy and brings out new perspectives on the characters to whom we had been introduced. But instead of tieing it nicely into a clean ending, Brin uses the last part of the book to take off on completely unrelated tangents that are not only uninteresting but completely uninspired (The horses are still around? Please! How corny can you get?) At the end of the book he "apologizes" for his inadvertant slip that turns this into a trilogy. It seems like more of a commercial set-up to me. I for one, plan not to read the rest of the trilogy out of sheer disgust. David Brin's earlier works are superb. Avoid this mediocre and misleading book if you want to avoid a sour taste
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