Title: Boring! Might have been a good novella
Product review: Talk about overblown hype. Passages of this book just drone on and on without going anywhere or contributing to the plot. The writing ain't all that "lyrical" or literary either. I read one other review here who said the reader was "drowning in math" -- what a crock! this is no hard sci-fi, this is no cyberpunk "redefined". I will grant that there are some interesting concepts such as the sociological makeup of the colonists and the biology of the native fauna of T'Nane. It might have been a good short story or maybe a novella, but Tricia Sullivan has stretched her ideas too thinly over a book filled with fluff and lacking much in the way of a compelling plot or characters. Maybe it's the lack of good bagels in her diet (oblique reference to trite "about the author" blurb.
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