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Title: Science friction, not science fiction
Review: I thought I would read this book before the summer movie came out. Checked out the rating (4-1/2 stars) and took the plunge. What? This has to be one of the all-time worst science fiction books ever written. The plot is entirely ridiculous, the characters are one-dimensional, and the science (whew!) is rotten. I only finished the book for the entertainment value of seeing just how far L. Ron Hubbard could push the ridiculous. I've been reading (and occasionally writing) science fiction for forty years, and this is the lowest ebb of the genre, the very nadir of its class.
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