Not bad but not the best novel by Arthur C. Clarke ...

The fluid and pleasant style unique to the author is present. Technically, it also delivers. This is the Arthur C. Clarke in no doubt. But I regret that the action really begins in the last third of the book ... the first 2 thirds are far from uninteresting but put so much water in the mouth that subsequently shipped too quickly for my taste, leave hungry ... As if the author had intended to write a work in 3 parts and that finally he had finished in a rush. Pity.