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Title: banal and dated
Review: This Hugo award winning novel shows its age. Characters are using slide rules and fingerprints to prove their points. Not to mention the Martians running around Earth and Mars. Very talky not much else going on. Lots of fiction very little science or imagination. More of a character study of a man's blossoming from a self-centered oaf to a world leader. Really a pretty basic fish out of water becomes a hero story. Not a whole lot of literary value here. I consider this book a waste of time. Not even a good escape novel.
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