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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Only for the Wolfe Completist,
By F.T. Lawrence (Washington State, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Operation Ares (Paperback)
This is Gene Wolfe's first novel, and unfortunately it's a trainwreck made of aging cellulose. The basic idea is intriguing: The U.S. has turned its back on science and technology, abandoning its colonies on Mars. After America has seriously declined as a result, the Martians ostensibly are beaming back propaganda to covert cells and threatening an invason. Unfortunately, the book reads like a below average screwball novel by A.E. Van Vogt. Plot threads and characters are created, dropped, picked up, then dropped again. Individuals are given great power for no reason other than the fact that they are told they possess incredibly bright minds. There are deals and counter-deals and feints and betrayals on the stage of international diplomacy, and in the end one wonders what if anything has actually changed. (One minor historical comment: Jefferson was not at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, as asserted in the book.) Wolfe went on to become a distinguished writer, largely of science fiction and fantasy; this is an interesting artifact for the completist only.
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OPERATION ARES. by Gene Wolfe (Hardcover - 1977)
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