This book is quite luminous – at least the edition I was reading, good job you can’t see that while you’re reading it, it’d be most distracting.
I was a little disappointed with this book, I’ve read Red Robe, another of his books. Lucifers Dragon seemed far more near-future, with a lot of fairly minor extrapolations from (what was, when it was written) current technology. Unfortunately a lot of those extrapolations are looking a little dated these days.
The story itself is quite good, though, and kinda makes up a bit for the writing style, although I found myself a little confused about how all the characters fitted together because they all seem to have two names and appear in different contexts at the same time. Only they’re not really the same time. It took me a while to unravel what was going on, and, even at the end, I’m not sure I really understood it. But then I think there were a few chunks missing, the bits that should have held the whole thing together.
A nice no-brain sci-fi read, not stunning but not a waste of time either.
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