Title: Disappointed
Product review: John Varley is one of a handful of science fiction authors I still read (spent my 20s reading in this genre, then mostly lost interest) - I look to him for three-dimensional characters and imaginative plots. So when I saw "Mammoth" on the shelf of my local library, I was excited to discover a Varley novel I haven't yet read.I'm three chapters into "Mammoth," and I actually stopped to see if it had been written as YA fiction - not that I have anything against YA, but surely adult fiction by a respected author would have graceful exposition, characters with depth, and compelling dialogue. Instead, this reads like third-rate Heinlein (and even first-rate Heinlein is first-rate because of its plots, not because of the quality of its writing).I might have enjoyed this back in my SF-reading days, but my standards for good writing have changed since then, and this isn't it. Back to the library it goes.
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