I wasn't really impressed with it. Not enough to read it again. I think he really tried too hard to use all sorts of genres. The book was, at core, a drama, with elements of romance and comedy. He stated in the introduction that he didn't like fantasy, but there was some (of the "Star Wars" variety, if you know what I mean).

In the same introduction, he said something about being a science-fiction writer. Unfortunately, he didn't know his science very well. The idea of the Psyklos physiology being different was actually rather good, if unoriginal, but then he tried to explain it and showed he had very little clue about basic cell biology. It was also most annoying he never named just what "breath-gas" was. I also found the way he had his characters use very very long zooms to "look in the past" to be somewhat suspect.

I don't think Hubbard was a terribly good writer.

Wade.