Title: Pandering to the ignorant
Review: I have read every single Michael Crichton book and this is one he should be ashamed of. It is not balanced at all, but puts together an over the top riduculous plot with one sided science "footnotes" to convince the ignorant and greedy that it is just fine to use up the earth to make a quick buck. For every piece of "science" that he has in this book, there is many times more evidence to the contrary. Good, hard, Science Fiction is supposed to be based on solid science, not fantasy. Michael Crichton usually writes good hard science fiction. This one is not in that category but is paraded to be, which is why he felt that he had to add all of the "footnotes" to get anyone to believe it. It is clear that this is a situation of "The Ringworld being unstable." He should be ashamed.
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