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Title: Very Disappointing
Review: David Brin is one of today's leading science fiction writers. Unfortunately, the quality of his work is erratic, as "Heaven' Reach," demonstrates."Heaven's Reach" was clearly a rush job. The characters are poorly developed and wooden. While the book is loaded with many grand ideas as well as new species and life forms, they are for the most part mentioned only fleetingly.As in Mr. Brin's previous books, "Heaven's Reach" is divided into many short chapters. I found it annoying that almost every chapter contains several paragraphs recapping what has happened in previous chapters. Sometimes a chapter recaps what has happened in the immediately preceding chapter. Give us readers some credit, Mr. Brin!As his past books demonstrate, Mr. Brin is a very talented writer, and I look forward to his next book. Hopefully he will slow down and come up with something to match the excellence of "Startide Rising" and his other! books.
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