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Title: There's no quest in Genesis Quest
Review: This book is an example of one of the classic ways science fiction can go wrong. Moffitt has come up with a simply splendid premise, but then he didn't trust the fascinating concept to involve readers without help. Instead, the plot degenerates into endless, repetitious bickering between factions of characters, so that the original concept is never developed and the book reads more like a tedious, petty soap opera than a novel. Despite the title, the characters never actually do go on the quest that is discussed endlessly throughout the book. Apparently you have to buy the sequel to read what the cover copy leads you to think you would get in Genesis Quest, but by the time I had slogged through this book I was so bored and annoyed that I never bothered.
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