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Labyrinth of Night

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As a TREMENDOUS fan of Steele's "Space" series (Clarke County, Space; Lunar Descent; Orbital Decay), I had hoped for another wonderful, charmingly human yet extremely hard-science near-future sf read. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in all respects by this one. The aliens are remote and uninteresting, the characters are hollow (and this in a STEELE book?!), and the plot is insipid. If I had to make a comparison, this was a lot more reminiscent of Michael Crichton's truly bad efforts ("Sphere," for instance) than any of Steele's prior work

This seemed to have great promise; the face, pyramids, exploration but it all fell apart shortly into the story and turned into the typical government intervention and conspiracy book, with Mars as the minor story line...disappointing.

This started out well, but after about 100 pages, Mr. Steele threw out most of the interesting characters and potential plotlines and turned this into a rather boring and predictable drama - supposedly taking part on Mars, but it could have been anywhere. Glad I bought this used.

I really enjoyed it! I read this book about 6 years ago and still remember it fondly.

I must concur with the majority of reviewers. The book has an interesting premise, but enormous logical flaws, and often characters behaving in ways that seem "out of character".

The plot was not very interesting. The aliens even less interesting. The ending was a disappointment.