Title: Awful! Just Plain Awful!
Product review: There have only been a few books that I've ever stopped reading. This is one of them. I was excited to start the book. It won a feakin' Hugo Award. It must be good. Right?NOT! The writing is horrible. The story is told in such a confusing manner that I really never made a connection with anyone and those that I ran into more than once, I could care less about. The story starts with an explanation of the universe, which is vague and far too long. Then in Chapter 2 the action starts and NOTHING IS EVER EXPLAINED AGAIN! The action consists of people walking to and from meetings and talking mostly about insignificant items. Please, someone explain to me how this piece of trash won a Hugo? Was everything else that year that bad? This was the era where Heinlein, Clarke, Pohl, Williamson, and Assimov were still actively writing. And this won a Hugo?I stopped after 160 pages and put myself out of my misery and moved on to the latest Varley novel, which was a breath of fresh air.
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