Title: Badly written and retarded
Product review: I've bought this book because of the Arthur Clarke's name on it. However judging from reading it, Mr. Clarke could have provided only the general plot. I will never believe that he could do such a horrible writing. The book is long and extremely slow-paced. The characters in it are badly retarded: all their actions are predictable 100 pages ahead yet they struggle hard during these 100 pages to come to obvious conclusions. The "science" in this book is completely phony. The book is so stupid and boring that I was not able to finish it. (By the way, do you know that the firearms with liquid (gasoline-like) propellant already exist and are considered the guns of the future ? This makes the described social effects of the main invention in this book, to put it mildly, unconvincing.)
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