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Review title: A socerer's-apprentice of a book
Product review: In this four-volume soap opera (begin anywhere, but you're committed to the end), Mr. Wolfe appears to have studied the techniques of the Great Masters, and studied well: his hard-science toys approach the best of Niven, his horror crawls up your spine like Lovecraft, his generation-ship echoes Clark. He seems to have chosen a poor master for his religeon work (Hubbard, perhaps?), his feminism could use a quick LeGuin refresher, and his politics ... well, perhaps he had to skip his Herbert class - but no one can be expected to master everything. His personal contribution, however, is only a rather incomplete paste-up of these studied touches into a not-quite connected narrative which never quite announces its point, nor ever seems to feel it's been reached.
