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Title: Laughing At It, Not With It. Boring, Wooden, Unrewarding.
Review: He's no Asimov and this is definitely not a classic of the genre. This book has dated badly. I don't imagine there will be any "Special 30th Anniversary Edition" coming out.I had the misfortune to be stuck with it on a trip through California after I stole it from the Turtle Hill Youth Hostel in SF so I'd have something to read. Boy did I ever get the punishment I deserved. Corny characters, bad science inventions, and a really unenlightened cold-war, paranoid ethic.One problem is that I've been reading Iain Banks' Sci-Fi lately and that has set the bar pretty high for what's good or not.
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