/lit/ - Literature

Finished Tau Zero this morning, and holy fucking shit it's not a fun read. The plot and premise is amazing, but the characters and writing were so bad I wondered if I wanted to DNF a 180 page book.

None of the characters had any personality and everyone acted like a child. A team of the world's best scientists simply give up at the first sign of trouble, people get into fights like they're in middle school, and ALL of the the romantic relationships were handled worse than anything Isaac Asimov has ever done. The character drama was painfully bad, but if that were gone there wouldn't be much of the book left.

If the premise was given to Arthur C Clarke and the characters acted like actual professionals, like in Rendezvous With Rama, it could have been one of the better classic sci fi books I've read.