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Originally Posted by varlog
That explains it. Try to read it now. It is miserable SF and exceptionally bad literature.
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Well, I read all of the Mission Earth novels about five years ago and didn't hate them, so I doubt my take on it would be much different. I have kind of wanted to re-read it, but the reality is my depression has gotten bad enough that I have zero chance of completing
any novel of that length. Hell, I can barely get myself to read short stories and novellas nowadays.
I may have a higher tolerance for lower quality writing though, so far the only books I couldn't finish reading were the horrific
Rendezvous With Rama sequels. And even there it wasn't the writing, but the overwhelmingly bleak and depressing universe that Lee posited for humanity. There was not a single shred of hope left by halfway through the third novel,
and it kept getting worse. I ended up skimming to see how it ended and gave up. It was bad enough that I refuse to even try reading anything else Gentry Lee is involved with.