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This is part of the Orion Science fiction masterworks series which in its own right I cannot praise enough - this is the first time I have read the title even though I have heard of it for some time (I guess we all have titles which we "aught" to get round to reading) well this was no disappointment - the book is difficult to describe without giving the storyline away which I will try desperately not to do. The concept is pretty straight forward - crack the language stop the war - however as you
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This was a playground of cool ideas, but I was frustrated by how little they mattered to the actual story. I love that the protagonist and spaceship captain of a 1966 novel was a bisexual Asian woman, but she was inhumanly perfect (famous poet, unparalleled linguist, genius strategist, Aikido blackbelt, telepathic, so beautiful everyone falls instantly in love with her, and so charismatic that she transforms the lives of everyone she meets) and experienced no character development, so it was har
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