The Centauri Device

A bleak, nihilistic, and dark satire on the space opera genre. The drug and violence fuelled excesses of William Burroughs, meet and corrupt, shades of Banks and Reynolds. The plot is weak, the characters shallow, and the (anti-)hero totally miserable and unlikeable. All of this buried in impenetrable, florid prose.

An SF classic? May have been when it was written in 1974, but now it's just wearisome.

Don't read this, unless you are particularly masochistic . Score 1.5