Cyteen

Extract: I first tried to read Cyteen this summer. I borrowed it from the library and started it, four times, then returned it. The first fifty pages were leaden with a huge number of characters and complex political intrigue, and I just couldn't get my head around it. On the day I was laid-off from job, I checked it out from the library again, still needing to read it for my personal Hugo challenge, and thinking I could use it for my WOGF challenge. Being unemployed, I'd have the time to hunker down and give it better try. I devoted ten days to this complex 680 page behemoth which seemed to mix elements from the classics of SF and paranoia literature: "Brave New World," "1984," "Future Shock," and Kafka's "The Trial." When I was done, I felt sorely cheated...