Title: Interminable...
Product review: There is some interesting sci-fi in this novel, but not enough to push the (rather gratuitous) sexual themes into the background. When I read a book about the moon landings I don't expect an extended treatise on the astronauts' sex lives. Ditto for a trip to Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, that is about all this novel boils down to. Also, it is so cynical and depressing in its view of human nature that the reader just may be tempted to join another species, perhaps even another phylum (I'm not sure the authors' haven't done so already, to judge from their obvious unhappiness with life in general). While I didn't get much sci-fi pleasure out of this reading experience, I did get a practical demonstration of Zeno's paradox: the more I read this thing, the farther I seemed to be from the end (and what blessed relief when it did arrive!).
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