The Algebraist

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I will never know whether I would have liked this book 5 or 10 years ago. A reread of some Culture novels will probably shed some light on that, but I cannot remember those books to have the problems I encountered here. Three and a half years ago I still liked Surface Detail, and I liked it a lot.

The Algebraist has drained my energy, and as a result I don't even feel like writing a lengthy review - even though I usually like panning books that failed to connect with me. So let's make it snappy.

There's two main reasons why this space opera tome didn't work for me.

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