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Review title: Totally Missed the Starship
Product review: What a disappointment! I loved "The Forever War" and eagerly awaited the sequel when I found out it was forthcoming. What I found the most disappointing wasn't that it couldn't match the power of the first book but that, overall, it was poorly written. Haldeman maintained his characters well but the actual story did not develop. We start out with a potentially insidious (to our eyes)evolution of future humans and Taurans melding into an entirely new being. That start was extremely intriguing. Then, all of a sudden, the last remnants of our form of humanity are hurtling across the galaxy in a semi-comedic god hunt. The two halves of the story did not gel! One or the other might have been good. It leaves one feeling that he (Haldeman)realized that he bit off more than he could chew or focus upon. Don't waste the effort.
