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Title: Better Angels by Howard V. Hendrix ISBN: 0-441-00652-3 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Hothouse of Ideas
Comment: I think I can explain the negative reviews. First, this is actually the first book of a trilogy. Second no matter how Hendrix's publishers bill him, he's writes a novels of ideas--and not 'hard sf'. So if you want is fiction about consistent plausible science then read Benford, but if you want your mind stretched read Howard.

Rating: 1
Summary: from ok to babbling nonsense
Comment: This book is terrible. The inital plot has a good premise, but as you continue through the book the writing gets so drawn out that you begin to wonder if the author wasn't smoking some of the mysterious fungus while writing the book. He becomes incoherently rambling and in fact, very boring. You cease to care what happens to the characters in the book and begin to wish they would just meet their end so the book would be done. I'm sure the author though he was writing a deep, spiritual, though-provoking novel, but it sure doesn't succed in even coming close to that. It is also peppered with anti-christian and anti-conservative barbs throughout. I regret wasting my money on it.

Rating: 1
Summary: ending goes to pieces
Comment: The book starts off with a very creative set of suppositions. With a little imagination, the beginning goes off very well and sets a stage for an exciting book. Unfortunately, the author cannot hold the force for long. The various subplots don't tie together very well and actually get boring. Then it goes downhill after that. The last part of the book reads as if Timothy Leary wrote it on a particularly incoherent day. Too bad - given the start, it was a disappointment.

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