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3.0 out of 5 stars
Entirely too much sex, 26 Aug 1999
By A Customer
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that the characters in this book spend entirely too much time thinking about sex. I'm not a prude; it's just that it seemed completely out of context.They make first contact with aliens; they think about sex. They find themselves on an inexplicable, incomprehensible landscape; they think about sex. They fear imminent death; they think about sex. They meet God; they think about sex. This seems at first to be a brutal view of human nature, but later it becomes downright bizarre. Even chimpanzees who find themselves in a completely alien place and have no idea how they got there wouldn't think about sex five minutes later, but these characters do. The characters sound interesting - an intelligent woman, her 14-year-old son, a chauvanist pig, a regular guy, a young girl, and her older, wiser mother. Nevertheless, they all have just one thing on their minds. In case your curiositiy is piqued, no, this isn't an erotic novel. If it was, all of this would make sense. Instead, it's as if the cast of a bad porno movie was suddenly transported into what would have otherwise been a fascinating SF novel. In a twist of plot at the beginning of the story, the characters are forced to start their journey without the team of scientists they planned to bring. I'm afraid all of the truly interesting and intelligent characters missed the boat.
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