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Title: Very disjointed
Review: MacLeod has a good story to tell in Cosmonaut Keep, unfortunately his writing style lacks a lot to be desired. This novel is full of speculative ideas from politics, intrigue, physics, and the nature of the universe, wrapped into what could have been a good story about real people. The writing is disjointed, almost hackneyed. Most of the novel is parallel threads, one set on 21st century earth, and the other a colonized planet at some point in the future. The back and forth between threads is not handled with particular aplomb, so it takes a while to get &#65533;into&#65533; the story and feel comfortable going and back and forth. And while the two threads come together at the end, the denouement is less than satisfying.Overall the general concept of the story is intriguing. There is a lot to be desired in the execution.
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