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Title: Not bad, until I got to the end
Review: My husband, who is a real science-fiction buff, explained to me that the purpose of all of those awful footnotes was to lend credibility for the real science-fiction lovers who need the "science" in order to believe the plot. OK, I'm not one of those, was bored by the interruptions of the footnotes, but I can accept that and skim them. The problem is that the two twists at the end (why Cavor was so important to the plan and who the narrator is) were totally ludicrous and WITHOUT the explanatory footnotes that tried so copiously to explain all of the other potentially unbelievable futuristic developments. For an author to try so hard through the footnotes to make the book believable, he failed in the end with his two most important plot points.
