A review by rheren
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

4.0

Quite an interesting book. It was obviously written awhile ago, and some of the technology is kind of laughable (they're hundreds of years in the future on a space station, but they still use spools of tape to input things into the computers, for instance, and still use paper for everything). However, the technology isn't the point of the book. The point is the politics and interplay between a variety of believable factions that are well-thought-out and very interesting. I liked the read, especially after the pace picked up about halfway through the book. The first half was somewhat slow, building up the characters and setting the stage of the several different plot lines that converged at the end.