World Cup. What a bore. Any game that allows a 0-0 draw as something that happens regularly is the biggest snoozefest since recreational sedimentation and cementation watching.

Do not read Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson.

I thought it would be an easy, effortless read and it was. Unfortunately, it also read like a newspaper report of some other novel, by a better writer.

It seems to have been written solely to capitalize on the success of the preceding novel, and is a rehash of sorts of that work with none of the original’s charm or plotting. The viewpoint jumps from character to character, but all of the character’s internal voices seem nearly the same.

And in a novel that could’ve been filled with interesting ideas about how cybernetically modified humans might fit into society and what that means, there are many explosions and poor descriptions of military maneuvers that would never occur the way they did in the novel.

I cannot un-recommend this work enough. The author might know something about robots, but he doesn’t know a thing about military strategy, humans, or plot.