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Title: Uninteresting, carelessly written garbage
Review: SPOILER: THERE IS NO ENDING. The book suddenly stops in its tracks. I had to re-read the final chapter and check the PAGE NUMBERS to see if the publisher had left out the ending by accident.It's as if Mr. Clarke lost interest in this awful piece of fluff about three pages into the story -- if story is the right word --and continued to write, grudgingly, in order to pay his mortgage.Yes, he's brilliant, and he's written some classic fiction and non-fiction, but he was so disintrested in his own story that the magic, the mystery, the grandeur of the next (or, previous) thousand years is glossed over without any thought about entertaining the reader.If you haven't read this book yet -- don't. Go find a 30-year-old Larry Niven book, curl up and enjoy the next thousand years written by an author who gave a damn.
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