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Dec 17, 2017DanglingConversations rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I read this in 1980 and this classic sci-fi left a strong impression on my 20 year old brain. Now, In the Trump era, when truth is malleable and a leader's word cannot be trusted, the underpinnings of a human holistic are frighteningly real threat. The first two segments are well written and enthralling but I found the last section bounced too fast into a future where Catholicism still holds undue sway in a post modern world. The whole mercy killing theme was exasperating given the immorality that was driving humanity to war. And OMG the remnants of an obsolete theology gets to fly off into the stratosphere. Now that is a tragedy that was supposed to inspire a germ of hope at the end of the novel and which ultimately deprecates the story for the 21st century reader.