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Title: Pointless
Review: The problem with writing a story about a military genius, is how do you convincing portray such a character without being a military genius yourself. Dickson tries to use the fact that his story is set in a high tech future to disguse the impausibility of his military plans. But even if the reader accepts Donal's strategies as good it's hard to believe no one ever thought of them before.The universe is unrealistic and Dickson treats human societies as if they themselves are individuals. This might work if as individuals they weren't all completely one-dimensional. This is a very simplistic and unsasitisfying book which even fails to work as a simple time-passer do to the clumsy writing and silly characters.
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