Title: Extremely Boring, Almost no Action, Mostly "Filler"
Product review: This novel is 700 pages. The fisrt 600 pages are basically people having converstaions. Almost nothing happens until the end when Humanity is attacked by the aliens. Then we find out that the novel is continued in a second book. It seems that the first 600 pages are "filler" that one can sleep through.It seems to me that the author was required to produce a certain number of pages, regardless of whether or not he had enough of a plot.I understand that Hamilton is considered a talented writer, but is difficult for me to understand why. I would reccommend any of Robert Sawyer's books to those who want to read excellent sci-fi.This type of writing by authors like Hamilton, is due, in part, to the new trend among writers to leave the book unfinished so they can produce a sequel. This creates the need to artifically inflate the number of pages.
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