This book encompasses many of the same themes as Dune - a savage planet that forces its population to excellence, breeding of superior humans, communication via subtle shifts in posture and voice, and a galactic conspiracy to suppress the threatening superior humans - but is an infinitely inferior work.
For one thing, there are at least two exclamation points per page. It gets tiring, being shocked! by! a new insight! every other paragraph!
More importantly, while every single character is a scheming, conniving, double-crossing super-agent, we're not given nearly enough background to understand any of their motivations, so it's really hard to care who's winning or why.
For one thing, there are at least two exclamation points per page. It gets tiring, being shocked! by! a new insight! every other paragraph!
More importantly, while every single character is a scheming, conniving, double-crossing super-agent, we're not given nearly enough background to understand any of their motivations, so it's really hard to care who's winning or why.
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