Title: It Fizzles
Review: The book starts out with so many great concepts that it was really an easy choice for me to buy it on the basis on reading the first few chapters. And a lot of interesting things happen along the way to the end. But it strangely fizzles out before the conclusion, which is a major disappointment. In fact, there really didn't even quite seem to *be* an ending. I felt like someone must have chopped out the last hundred pages.Likewise, Oscar starts out as an intersting character but he never, ever changes and we never really seem to get inside of him or achieve any sort of understanding of him. For a character that seems so deep and interesting when you first assay him, you end up with the feeling that he's just an android spounting endless bits of dialogue to no real purpose.A shame. Read Schismatrix or Heavy Weather instead.
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