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Title: Warmed-over colonialism
Review: I found this book to be rather flat: the plot was kind of predictable, the characters were two-dimensional (if that) and the technobabble explanations were indigestable. Weber's Manticoreans are just ersatz Brits in Space, bringing the benefits of Civilization to a bunch of Savage Natives. (Please. Kipling did this so much better a hundred years ago.) Instead of reading Weber, check out books on the real British Empire -- it's far more interesting.
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