Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Mediocre Space Opera

I have to give the author credit for trying. This is a combination future history and Fred Saberhagen type ancient malignant forces in the universe story interlarded with Star Wars type mysticism. The future history, a time line is which a combined Japanese-Aztec society conquered the Earth and now runs an interstellar empire, is probably the most interesting component. It is presented obliquely as the background to the main action of the story and the reader has to exercise a bit of thought to infer the history of this society. The main story, the efforts of the characters to avoid awaking terrible cosmic forces from a prior age of the galaxy, is a descendent of Saberhagen's Berserkers and is a fairly routine action story. The elements of mysticism are simply silly and actually detract from the story.