“It's a good book, lots of twists and comes to a conclusion. The biggest problem is the non-interesting stuff. The author takes ages to complete some idea (the first paragraph, 100+ lines, could be shortened to "The ship approached the tower with the whales around it.") Also, at some chapter, there is a large description of a guy with wings making love in space with some four armed girl, when the point was simply to describe what did happen with a robot in the second chapter. A whole chapter for something that's used in one line. And, when the winged guy tells this to another person, nothing happens. So the whole chapter just sits there, describe a lot of non-interesting stuff and adds nothing to the story.
But, when you remove this cruft from the story (about 60% of it all, unfortunately), you have a pretty interesting story about space exploration, what's inside minds (oh, and Space Ships with minds! That was completely awesome!) and how we deal with the unknown.
I would surely give 6 stars to this story if there wasn't so much cruft on it (even if the story would be only 100 pages long.)”
Julio B wrote this review Monday, June 2 2008.
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