Science fiction is a pretext to put the book situation and the establishment of an inter cultural relationship. One might expect a delicate ethnological study of very different cultures, but Sadiris are only a copy of Star Trek Vulcans. (Some more severe than I could mention vulgar pumping, and they would not necessarily wrong).
The universe has no consistency. It is theorized, certainly, but still ... totally theoretical. In detail, it is the drama: we swim right in soft focus. And when you leave the vagueness is worse. For example, not only the cultural references of the future of mankind is based on the worst commonplaces of Anglo-Saxon literature (William Shakespeare and the Wizard of Oz, help, them again!) But also the author strikes us as incongruous references film Indiana Jones, Casablanca and ... ET the extraterrestrial! (That is, the cultural references of his childhood, our young generations already know it.)
As for the planet that happens the whole story (Cygnus Beta, which bears its name well), it sounds totally wrong with its mono-cultural communities fully waterproof while transport and modern communications exist. (With a bonus Ministry of the family who is ruthless with the bad fathers but ignorant of the existence of slave communities on his planet ...)
Indisputable sign that one is in a romance: the hero is beautiful, mute, intelligent, tortured and dark, heroin is ugly (but actually not), elderly (but actually not that much) and ordinary (but actually not ...). Besides these pictures, it is intelligent, very late in the description of interpersonal relationships, but then to cry genius, no.
Apart from the interactions between the characters, it absolutely nothing happens, but a small rebound at the end of the book that sounds quite wrong, the mission runs smoothly, as expected. You learn a few things well on Sadiris and mysterious Guardians, but it's still really anecdotal. Anyway, if you know what a Vulcan, you know what a Sadiri.
I'm pretty bored after reading this novel minimalist issues whose end is known from the first pages.
I add for clarity that I can fully understand that we like or that we worships this book. We just have to not focus on the solidity of its universe to appreciate the great accuracy of its relationships, its subtle romance, and do not expect anything else from reading. For this book has a great many formal and psychological subtlety qualities.
It's just not my cam, love stories between Mr Spock and Dora the Explorer.
