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Review title: big let-down
Product review: The concept for this book is fantastic - a wonderful idea, with several neat twists. However, I found the actual plot enormously disappointing. Without giving too much away, suffice to say that the concept largely recedes as the author spends most of the book using the science-fiction "hook" as a veneer for discussing his thoughts on Issues Of the Day ("what would the inhabitants of Omicron Beta III think about abortion?"). Furthermore the book requires that you feel that Canadians are so utterly phlegmatic that the daily presence of an Alien in their midst, after a few days, is treated largely with a shrug - no extra security for the alien, no extra recording/monitoring/vetting of the conversations with the alien, etc.I don't want to sound like too much of a fussbudget, but those two were just too much for me to swallow - more emphasis on the essential concept and a lot less on the gassing about public policy would have made this a great book.
