Title: Superficial characters and unsuspenseful plot
Product review: I know a book is not capturing my interest when I have to force myself to read it and have a hard time getting caught up in what I'm reading. This is like a book written from the script of a bad TV movie. The most appealing aspect about science fiction (and I am a big fan of the genre) is discovering something or someone in the story is not what they seem, and subsequently having to figure out what is really going on after all. In this book, however, the hapless author telegraphs exactly what the significance of the artifacts that the characters find so far ahead that you become irritated with how slowly the story unfolds. Mr. Becker may have done research to back his plot, but his writing ability just doesn't do justice to the material. Too bad, this would have been a good story in the hands of a talented writer. Not worth reading, unless you enjoy being bored.
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