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Title: Well-intentioned But Disappointing
Review: I bought this novel because it has been compared to Heinleins juvenile stories, which I rather liked. The books feeling, in fact, is right, but apart from that it suffers from an oversimplified plot, rather wooden characters and a hard-to-believe background setting. The science seems correct, but that does not make this book "hard SF". I do not know about Sheffield, but if you want to read a good Pournelle, stick to "Prince of Mercenaries" or other books of his.
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