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Title: Worth a read, not his best.
Review: I'm giving this book four stars for it's a fun and solid science fiction. I can't give it more because this book it just that. I read this story when it was serialized in Analog, and my initial responce was 'Is this really a new story freshly written in the 21st Centry?'This book is old-fashioned. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's just too-typical, too-1970's-like, too-comforting. I think readers who started reading science fiction back in the 1950s would find this book more interesting than I did. Haldeman is definitely a telented writer-I still remember the shock and wonder I felt when I first read his best works like _The Forever War_ or _All Sins Remembered_. This new novel won't league among them, but for those looking for a classical science fiction with a classical idea and humour, it would still be recommended. You won't be surprised, but you will be satisfied.
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