Thread: Best All-Time Sci-fi Novel?
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:32 PM   #103
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I enjoyed the book, but I have trouble putting it in even a top ten for the genre, partly because it's highly derivative of another classic, Starship Troopers, and partly because of the formulaic, crowd-pleasing structure. It's engaging, as the coming-of-age hero shtick usually is, but ultimately pretty shallow, borrowing any substance it has from Heinlein, who explored it all in greater depth at, what, 1/3 the word count?
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