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Review title: [Weak]
Product review: I found the science vaguely interesting (particle erotique); but the main premise of an adventure -- which this novel pretends to be -- is likeable characters; and it is here that the book fails. Also: the Greece of the novel is cartoonish; it feels like a bad Latin-American country in a Hollywood movie. Finally: the heroine's Bostonian mother must have been some ingenuous Baroque music buff to listen to a piece for harpsichord by Vivaldi (of all the composers)... While I understand that a sci-fi writer doesn't need to show superior sensitivity and taste, I hate it when a writer of sorts tries to fool the reader. Just stick to your Einstein, Mr. Benford.
