Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: I don't see any special merits in this one.

Haldeman is good in creating believable characters, but after a writing a few books or so, you have the feeling that his methods seem formulaic. And there's nothing original in this one (not in the science fiction sense - as that is extremely hard - but in the literary sense). His writing seems deep when you first read them, but then, after a few books, you feel cheated, like after watching a hollywood love story, like Titanic. But, then again, science fiction has never been about literature in the first place. The 1-star rating here is given when I compare this novel with other literary greats. Compared to other science fiction novels, a 4 to 5-star rating is appropriate for this master.