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Review title: Weak dialogue and characters, But great World Design
Product review: Anderson has a good knack for world building -- creating interesting political structures, cultures, social dynamics, and so on.However, he's weak, at least in this book, at creating characters that you want to empathize with and/or which feel real. He is similarly poor at writing dialog, and most of his characters seem to speak in one of two or three modes -- very little distinct personality is shown.The mortal sin of writing he commits repeatedly is to "Tell" you what someone is about, or what a situation is as opposed to "Show" you. His characters frequently say what they are about with technical terminology.. it's very odd. It's a damn shame too because his world is pretty cool and have a lot of promise.First book I've been unable to finish in a long time... and I really tried -- 100 pages from the end.Maybe his next series will be better...
