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Review title: Where's the science fiction?
Product review: I hated this book. I realized why. The story is set in 2235. Mankind has developed a faster-than-light drive. Other than that, the entire setting is pulled directly from the late 20th century. The director of the space exploration agency wears a white blouse and blue pants. A pilot grabs a bagel and jelly for breakfast. Congress threatens to slash funding for the space agency. The Arctic ice-cap might collapse. Hasn't the world changed a little bit more than that in 225 years? It's as if history stopped dead in its tracks.A writer of science fiction, in addition to creating characters and a plot, must present an imagined future setting for the story. McDevitt has created an adventure story involving space ships but doesn't seem to have any concept of what science-fiction is.
