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markzero's review
1.0
There's the glimmerings of some interesting ideas in the beginning about how an already spacefaring society might change when FTL drives first start appearing, and about what responsibilities we'd have for our intelligent tools and software agents. However, the protagonist is a cad who keeps thinking about who he is or isn't having sex with, and whether he can cajole or bribe sex from someone who repeatedly turns him down, and so forth. Who knows, maybe at the end of the story he has some epiphany about his behavior, and that maybe he should give women at least the same respect as his tools, but given that the forward has the author wondering if women can understand his work, I really doubt it. Anyway, not holding my breath past the 25% mark.
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