Title: THIS was worth a Nebula award??
Product review: So Gregory Benford is a physicist himself. Great! I can appreciate a scientist dousing a sf story with mounds of science. But - hey - how much? He must have thought his characters needed - well - character. So he heaps day-to-day ennui upon ennui. Was he paid by the word? And for story? This is FICTION. Why not make it fictitious? Except for a really GOOD idea of a time traveling Morse coded message where was anything outside of ORDINARY? His details of his characters life becomes ponderous, while his details of what should have been interesting were scant. How about the "Central Park bomb"? (only one mention). The Kennedy fictionalized assassination went on for pages. Then it was followed by the vaguest hints of JFK's recovery and continued presidency. BIG DEAL!! 500 pages of waiting and wanting to understand why this thing won a Nebula.
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