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I bought this book while hurredly looking through the grocery store book shelves for any Sci-Fi book to keep me sane during my day-long stint as an election judge at last week's primary election. This one had a nice cover and so I snapped it up. I never heard of the author Walter Jon Williams but I didn't care.<br /><br />I'm about 2/3 of the way through this book now. I have mixed feelings about it. <br /><br />On the plus side: The universe he describes is very interested and well-described. I'm interested in finding out how the story turns out.<br /><br />On the minus side: I'm so sick of the soap-opera storylines of who is marrying who and I'm sick of the social structure where if you have money your ideas are more worthy than if you are born into a lower social class. An example: The main character of the story comes up with a brilliant idea which will mean the difference between winning a war and losing it. But because of his social class, his idea is turned down. Stupid, I know. So when you're reading about stupid frustrating people, the reader ends up getting frustrated.<br /><br />I'll keep reading till the end, however. I'll let you know my final opinion on this book. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>