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Title: a short story in book length
Review: It seems that Amazon rankings work like this: fiction - mostly people that like the book; non-fiction - mostly people that didn't like the book; music - people calling each other names.So to buck the trend - here are my two stars. I really like Greg Bear, especially his "Blood Music". This book, however, has a clever premise and some decent hard science to it, but on the whole is just plain boring. It may have made a nice short story or novella, but it doesn't work at novel length.The initial find of the iceman is too bizarrely coincidental with the rest of the story. And, anyway, wasn't this same ground better covered by Arthur C. Clarke's 2001?Bear is one of the few authors I will risk a sight-unseen hardback purchase. After this disappointment, I may have to remove him from that category. That's evolution for you!
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