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Title: An epic, sweeping, visionary sense of nominal competency.
Review: Not incoherent, but incohesive. The narrative leaps from first to third-person roughly every other page--why Haldeman did this, I don't know, since it adds absolutely nothing to the effect. It doesn't even achieve a stylish jarring effect, it's just...annoying.The plot verges on the plain silly, and logical problems peek out from several corners of the text. (For example: ten days in a group mind-meld month after month after month is just fine, but FOURTEEN days even once? Well, obviously that will remove the ability to kill "except in self-defense". Er...yeah!)The prose is competent, however, and it's a decent book to kill a couple afternoons with.
