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Title: Boring and dated
Review: I read a lot of sci fi and can't understand the enthusiasm for this novel. Even though the main character is a reluctant soldier the description of military hardware and tactics seems to take up more than half the book. And then their's the author's obsession with homosexuality. It's so obvious that he was reacting to the changes going on in the late seventies, and was less than sympathetic. So he made it a big theme, which was in the end mostly a distraction. The end finally addresses a question about the enemy introduced as soon as the fighting starts, but in a way that was almost predictable.There are a lot of great sci fi novels from decades past that don't feel dated. In my opinion, this is not one of them (though this is obviously a minority opinion).
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