Reviews

The Avatar by Poul Anderson

chutten's review

1.0

It wasn't written very engagingly, its ideas were few and over-explained, and it had that unfortunate tendency of trying to justify non-monogamous relationships and other present-day social taboos in a society that was written to have already gotten over them.

magicj_001's review

3.0

This is kind of an old-fashioned space opera novel in some ways. The politics are achingly libertarian, ala Heinlein and the very 70's new age free lovelifestyle/morals seems very laboured and forced in 2014. But this author has been one of my favourites and I was attraced to the book. Its very good in places and there are some great ideas, but it is very uneven. As and American living in Ireland for the past 10 years, I did enjoy the occasional Irish references -- although "Pegeen's" mannerism's are a bit over the top -- what the Irish call Twee.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they are real die-hard SF fans. It's the kind of book I was glad to get to the end of -- find out how it ends and go on to something else.

bruc79's review

2.0

Muito aborrecido. Uma desilusão

pirate's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It passes the Bechdel test!