Title: Political agenda poorly disguised as a sequel
Product review: This cannot be considered either a science fiction story, or a sequel to the superb "Probability Broach." This can only be considered a crass attempt to push a political agenda. The story consists of the main characters being set up, chapter after chapter, to abuse and ridicule various democratic ideologies held by the other, completely undeveloped and haphazardly created, characters. The "main" plot? Stuff gets blown up.I'm quite willing to listen to L. Neil Smith's political viewpoints provided he tells them with relevence in the framework of a reasonably intelligent, logically consistent science fiction story. Unfortunately, those criteria don't apply here.If you haven't read this and you're looking for a sequel, or have read this and think that you might ever read another L. Neil Smith novel again, you might try either "The Nagasaki Vector," or "The Gallatin Divergence."
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