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Title: Wasted a great theme!
Review: I had never read Greg Bear before. So I was excited and ready for the experience of this writer and, it started out fine. However once he got into the characters it began to fall apart. Especially the diolog between Mitch and Kay was very amateurish. Conversations between the scientists were not realistic. At the top of all this the turn of the events and the agenda (far from science) that the author was trying to sneak in became obvious. What could be an exciting page turner evolved into a "can't wait to finish" kind of a nuisance. Although it was not waste of my time, it was the waste of an excellent theme by the author. A very interesting subject was being squandered by bad writing and shaky science.
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