Title: Alas
Review: Alas, Robinson is an excellent writer, except on those occasions when he lets his sense of self-righteousness run away with him.He can't seem to imagine that anyone could disagree with him unless they were wicked or stupid, and the sock-puppets he's substituted for characters here show the same disagreeable trait.This got old in the "Red Mars" series, but you could put up with it for the good bits.Here, Stan the Soapbox Man has overwhelmed Kim Stanley Robinson the writer; the good bits become vanishingly scarce.Don't bother. Get one of his older books.
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