Title: Hack job
Review: Thankfully, I got my copy from the library.Like several other reviewers, I only got partway into this before I realized it was going nowhere: an implausible concept, badly executed.This is yet another example of an established, accomplished writer lending his name to the work of somebody who could not possibly market this stuff on their own. We see a lot of this now, as the great science fiction authors get on in years and no longer generate memorable original material as they did in their earlier days. For those hoping for an unforgettable reading experience to rival Niven's "Ringworld" or the "Tales of Known Space" universe, there's nothing here.Dual-author science fiction should be a red flag: "Warning! Hack material inside!" And to think, just a few decades ago, Niven and Pournelle actually had a great collaborative corpus.
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