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Review title: Slow to start but worth the wait for space opera fans
Product review: A distant future anthropologist whose studies inadvertently uncover the clues to saving his star system from invasion becomes wrapped up in the search for a miracle, encountering numerous alien cultures and social-political interests along the way. Although the book falters a bit in the early pages by establishing additional unecessary storylines, it eventually settles into a satisfying mix of action and humor, with some fairly original ideas about intelligent life in the universe and possible futures for human kind. Some great revelations throughout, with a truly evil nemesis in the Archimanderite Luseferous (what a name).Banks has a lighter, funnier tone with dialogue that others in the genre (Hamilton, Vinge, Reynolds) that may seem a bit to modern-day, but actually works quite well within the other far-distant future themes.
