Submitted by David Taylor (Jun 25, 2007)

I found Pandora's Star far too long and in dire need of some stricter editing. There were whole sub-plots that seemed unnecessary and did nothing to further the story or even really flesh out the universe, where I found myself doggedly ploughing through just trying to make it to the next interesting/important part. Even the important parts could have been tightened considerably, with many paragraphs of needless detail just getting in the way and making it a labourious read. It is a good story ruined by a self-indulgent author whose prose should have been massively pruned by his editors, but wasn't. The book could easily have been 1/2 or 2/3 the size, and much better.