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Title: As if the first two of the trilogy never existed.
Review: This reads like the work of an author who wrote two excellent books, then took some time off during which he explored funky religions and had an "awakening." The book opens slowly and pokes along, He inroduces many characters with interchangeable names. "Rishathra," interspecies sex for treaty building etc. got small billing in the first two novels. In this one it becomes the focus. Things pick up a bit halfway through, but overall this has little in common with "Ringworld" and "The Ringworld Engineers."
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